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Mr. Miertsching cheerfully accepted an invitation to join tho party, but his pleasure was damped by re- ceiving that morning a note from Captain M'Clure, desiring him to be on board by four o'clock, instead of remaining a fortnight ; ho had decided upon sailing that day. Letteis were hastily finished and left in ♦'"e care of the English consul ; and at one o'ciock the guest sat down to dine with the mission circle. After tho meal, a farewell service was held, in which earnest jirayers were offered, not only for tho Christian brother present, but for all his companions in danger and hardship. Then children crowded round, offering flowers and books as farewell gifts, their parentr uttered fei'vent blessings, two of them accompanied him to the boat which was waiting for him, and cheered by their kindness, though sad at part- ing, the voyager returned to his ship. "Bj"' five o'clock we were out of the harbour, and as the wind was favourable, tho city of Honolulu soon vanished from our eyes. The captain's presence being required on deck, I went into his cabin and sang to my guitar : — * Give me thy strength, O God of power. Then let wiiwla blow or thunders roar ; I need not fear by sea or land. For thou, my God, wilt by mo stand.' •* Tho captain had been advised by an experi- enced seaman not to take the usual course to reach Bohring's Strait, but the most direct, by the Aleutian Islands. Tliis proved perilous on account of the strong currents, tho incorrect- ness of the charts, and also the prevalence of fogs. Tho ' Investigator ' entered the Strait July 27th. On arriving in Kotzebue Sound, guns were fired as a signal for the ' Enterprise,' which were answered by the appearance of the 'Plover,' Commander Moove. Tho enquiry, " How long since tho 'Enterprise ' passed ?" re- ceived the unexpected answer, " We have seen nothing ot her." Two days later, beyond Cape Lisbume, H. M. S. ' Herald,' Captain Kellett, hove in sight. The 'Plover' had been stationed in Kotzebue Sound as a dep6t ship for Sir John Franklin in case ho should succeed in the object of his expedition; and the 'Herald,' which was engaged in surveying the coast of Central America, paid a yearly visit to the ' I'lover ' with a supply of provisions, remaining three months cruising about in tho hope of fall- 9i\^'il2 (53 THE FAITHFUL DOG. iiig in with Sir John Franklin ; anIEI('9 MOUTH— FAHEWELL TO THE ('lUF.FS OF THE 'AI.AwiN — DimCULTIES IN THE WAV OF A MISSION TO THE UEDOWIN. Two hours before wo arrived at Hebron, wo had been taken in charge by a quarantine soldier, for the Syiian authorities do not con- sider that pevKons who have passed forty dajs in hard travel in (he desert liavo tliereby given a pretty conclusive proof that thoyare at least in fair average health and strength. Wo had undergone this ordeal, but still we must be put into quarantine before the authorities could ascertain that we wero not affected with tho plague, or other vii-ulent contagious disease, which we might disseminate amongst tho Syrian subjects of tho Sultan. When once the guardian of tho public health had taken pos- session of us, ho decidedly objected to our stopping to sketch, for fear that we should infect the passers-by ; but we were resolute in our deteimination to cany away some reminis- cence of the first phase under which the city of the patriarchs presented itself to us, and of our own impressions of the bright cheerful to\vn which clung to the steep hill-face on one side of this famed and fertile vale, so plente- ously enriched with shade — a landscape con- trasting so strongly with that upon which wo had looked for several weeks past. Tho desire to bear away with us some memento of this southern approach to Hebron — " the way of the spies " — would have been strong within us, if the scene had possessed nothing but its own physical beauty and fresh- ness to recommend it as a subject for our pencil ; but this earthly comeliness was its least attraction in our eyes. It was not for this that wo were so anxious to possess some tangible memorial which shoiild serve years afterwai ds to renew our fading recollections of the distant spot we should never revisit. Our thoughts were not of the present possessors of the {trim houses, the groves and gardens and vineyards outspread before us. Our minds wandered far away among tho dim shadows of the hoary past. A'vvful phantoms — the unsub- stantial shapes of the mighty who dwelt here of 3'ore — stalk across that narrow plain, haunt those cool dark groves, and glide along those mountain slopes which hem the valley round. It. shadowy outline on tho mountain summit, faintly seen against the clear blue sky, with am. s outstretched to the heaven up to which his trusting glance is raised, s+ands a reverend form, endowed with mi.ro than mortal majesty, whose title, when ho dwelt here below, wi'i : still more awe-inspiring: tliat is "tlio frieiul of (iod. ' Mt)re than three thoiisand yoven hundred yoius have been engulfed by ete]nit3''8 broad flood, since on that same mountain-top he pleaded face to face with his Cioiitor, in earnest intercession for sinning inuu. Tlieie, too, the righteous Judge of ail the eartli, who descended to the land to " see whetlier they had done altogether according to the cry of it which had come up to him," yielded to mortal man's i)etitiou for his fellow-man. Alas I in vain. The cry that had gone up to heaven had spoken too clearly, too tnily ; and outside the walls of one man's house there wero not ten righteous to save the wicked, or one single righteous soul to fly or perish with them. " The prayer of i. righteous man availeth much," and great things were here granted bj' God to his faithful servant's prayer ; but that long- sut!ering mercy brought no remissi'ju of punishment to the land that was so deejily flooded by the torrents of pollution. The venerable shape upon the high hill-top now melts away from sight ; but flitting round that one grand stmcture of past days, now dominated by the minarets, and desecrated by the possession of the Taynim infidel, the spirits of the faithful and the holy, who sprang from Abraham's loins, watch their own and their fathers' sepidchres. There, too, are the grim giaftts, tho sons oi' Anak, in whose sight ordinary mortal men ap- peared as grasshoppers. Strong and biave were the Anakim, proud and self-reliant ; they trusted in their own arm and their own spear. But the stalwart frames of the pagan giant.^ fade away, a:id other shapes succeed. Men of common mould they seemed in life, but the might of the all-powerful Deity strengthened their weak arms, whilst Omniscience guided their feeble reason and inspired their fallible speech. They were Imman, and they wero weak, but (hey were full of faith and humility ; their tnist was in no resources of (heir own, but in that great God who made them ; and befoie them, giant force and giant pride fell prostrate in the dust. They were the in.'-tru ments of God's vengcauc, and their energies were wielded by Omnipotence. 'I'hese wero the two who in the prime of life had visited this spot, viewed the good land, and had not. feared its giant owneis. Near half a century afterwards they retunied with the sword, and before their heaven-sent power tho valour of the Anakim melted away like summer hail. And there, with the ointment of a royal con - secration on his brow, the ruddy youth, the wondrous harper, the champion of his God and II ■^1 70 TILWELS IN THE IIOLV LANJ). of lii^ king, llio I'liftitivo outlaw, the man of blood, tliG swooh Hiiij^t;r of lnnu;l, llio kiiif:; over nil tlio tiihos of GoiI'm peoplo, the inspired pro- phet, tho deeply repentant sinner, tho ancestor of tho AlessiuU — htouda by the city where first ho reigned. And there, too, is one with flowing locks, whoso beauty wax matchless through the land, and whoso frank word and seductivo smile "stolo tho liearttj of tho children of Israel." lie, fio li/Ved and cherished by tho father whom ho honoured not, passes before us in parricidal rebellion, wilii a trumpet blown before liim, and a crown usurped, breaking God's command spoken in 8inai's thunder, and destined soon to lose the blessing attached to its observance, for his days wore not hmg in tho land which the Lord his God had given him — his fate the great warning to disobedient children. Strangely in unison with our mind's flight into tho Kpectral past, was the phrase with which our wearied guard, whom we had kept so long waitijig for us, broke in upon our train of thought and dispelled tho vieion of the mighty men of old: " Uavo you no bowels?" Here was a form of expression used in com- mon talk by a Moslem soldier, in a sense which was familiar to us from its frequent occuiTence in Scripture, and in Scripture alone. It was a phrase belonging to those ancient days and that old dispensation whither our thoughts had wandered. Ho was tired of having to take charge of ns fo*r so long a time, sitting out in the sun, whilst wo were engaged in an occupa- tion that seemed to him utterly childish n.nd futile, if not positively wicked, and we h- pity for him. Our "bowels" were " troubled for him ;" wo had not showed ni.a " any bowels and mercies ;" we had shut np our " bowels of compassion." He thought that we were *' straitened in our bowels," and said in his own mind to each of us, *' Tho sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me, are they restrairied ?" He looked upon us as altogether selfish and unfeeling for continuing to do our own pleasure in opposition to his wishes, but what else could he expect from infidels and Nazarenes such as we were ? And he doubtless thought that " the bowels of the wicked are crael." Our sketch at length was finished, and then wo remounted our dromedaries, yielded our- selves up as prisoners to the quarantine oflBcial, and wero lodged by him at last within the walls of tho lazaretto, to his great satisfaction. This was our last day of travel upon camels and dromedaries. We were now supposed to be within the border of civilization, and amongst a fixed population, dwelling in houses instead of amongst tlio nomade dwellers in tents. From '( henceforth, horses and mules wore destined to cany us and our baggugo. Tho quarantine establishment of Ilobrun is situated in a great cemetery outside the town ; and now that wo and our belongings were dept)8ited there, tho " ships of the desert," whom we had buidened so long, wero to return to their native wilder- ness. Wc had now to take leave of onr wild Arabs and their chiefs, tho sheikhs of the great tribe of the 'Alawin or 'Aloein Bodowiu, and to give them " baksheesh," i. e. small presents over and above the price stipulated for our safe conduct and tho hiro of their animals. This bargain had been struck and this price fixed at Akabah with the famous Sheikh Iluasoin, tho chief of all tho 'Alawtn. The " baksheesh" was optional on our part, but still was oxpeo- tcd, as a matter of custom, by the subordinate shoiklis sent with ua by the crafty and powerful old man of Akabah. During oiir long desert journey we had over- taken, or been overtaken by, several indepen- dent parties of travellers, who joined our cor- tege, until the caravan, gradually swelling in numbers, amounted, when we reached Hebron, to upwards of seventy dromedaries and camels and one horse, of which latter unfortunate beast we have before made mention. Tho whole caravan was governed by a brother of Sheikh Hussein, who obliged us all to start more or less together each morning, to adhere to the same route during the day's journey, and to pitch our tents in tolerable proximity at night. He also legulated the hours of our morning's start and of our halt for the night, but beyond these points he did not interfere. In other respects, each party preserved its own independence, was guided by its own sheikh, had its own encampment, went its own pace during the journey, made slight deviations from the route if it chose, stopped to lunch or sketch when it pleased, and amalgamated with or isolated itself from the companions whom chance had thrown- in its way, just as it fancied. Our own private detachment of this great gathering was led by Sheikh Eid, and we had a dozen dromedaries and camels for our share. We had also a supplementary sheikh attached to our party, a boy, by name 'Aish, who had inherited the rank and property of his dead father, and who for the first time acted as a guide and guard to wayfarers traversing tho land of his tribe. His inheritance comprised a dromedary or two, an immense and faded " kefieh," or striped silk and cotton handker- chief worn over the head, and an " abbaya," or outer garment, striped brown and white, and so much too long for its diminutive wearer \ I THE SHEIKHS of the 'alawix. 71 destined to qiiaraiitino I in a j^roat )W that wo , theio, iho I burdened ivo wilder- wild Ainbs great tribe md to give iSonts over ir our eai'o rials. This ice fixed at Tissciii, the jakBheesli " was oxpco- rtibordiuttto id powerful e had over- al indepen- ed our cor- swelling m ed Ilobron, and caniols unfortunate tion. Tho brother of all to start r, to adhere 's journey, roximity at urs of our r the night, >t interfere. rod its own wn sheikh, own pace deviations to lunch or mated with ions whom just as it this great ind wo had r our share, h attached 1, who had f his dead acted as a versing tho lomprised a and faded m handker- ibbaya," or white, and ivo wearer that it was all frayed at tho bottom from trail- ing on tho giound, so that it appeared to bo iluubtfnl whether the boy would first gi'ow to the proper lieight for his robe, or the robe sooner wear itself away to the dimensions of its boy owner. One other chattel descended to tliu young ishoikh, which ho lucked on as an < uiblom of his rank and position, and which Avas the pride of his heart. This was a match- lock of portentous length, heavy and unwieldy, ft most undesirable burden for a pedestrian ; but tlio boy could not bear to abandon this badge of dignity, and he trudged along tho greater part of each day with this cumbrous appendage slung across his shoulders. Ho was ft pleasant, cheerful lad, but grave withal, and full of a sense of what was due to his posi- tion. He was far from handsome, being some- what monkey-like in the form and arrangement of his features. Our head sheikh— Sheikh Eid — was a son-in-law of the great Sheikh Husaein. Ho was decidedly good looking, and his frame ^^°as more square built and powerful than is customary with tho Bedowin, and his face also was more massive. If tho adjective "respect- able " were not utterly and outrageously inap- jnopriate as applied to anything Bedowin, >Sheikh Eid might have laid claim to this quali- fication, at any rate relatively. He was kindly and courteous, as became a man of mark ; and on the strength of his rank and connections he paid us a visit every evening in our tent, and conversed for a few minutes, then wished good- night, and departed. As we wore two Englishmen under his guidance, he attached himself to one of us during each day's travel, and young Sheikh 'Aish extended his care and the protection of his long matchlock to the other, and during all our journey under such escort, wo had every reason to bo thankful that we had fallen into the hands of Sheikh Eid and his youthful protege. Other parties travelling in the same caravan were not so fortunate. It is always di£Bcnlt to arrange a matter of " baksheesh." Arabs are never satisfied with a gratuity, however liberal. They will often take scant pay fmr hai-d service, gratefully ; but the moment a free gift is in question they be- come grasping and rapacious. We were by this time pretty well ubed to Bedowin habits and characteristics, and knew what we ought to do. Wo therefore presented Sheikh Eid with some piastres, and with nearly two pounds of English gunpowder — a gift beyond all prco to an Arab — and gave a few piastres and a pound of gunpowder to the miniature shiekh, which latter gift raised him no doubt vastly in his own estimation, and gave him great im- portance. We took the customary amount of grumbling us .i matter of cuuroo, and as soon as it was seen (hut wo wuro firm, und that no moro was to bo got from us, the fucos of the sheikhs, young and old, cleared up, and we became capi- tal friends again. Then it Wiis that wo luuilc them both stand for tho poitruits we give in our engraving — young Aish being os])ecially anxious that due piominenee should be given to his weapon of war— and then, tho sketch being finished, wo took a cordial farewell, spoko the final " Poaco go with you ! " and parted. It has been a subject of deep regret to many an earnest minister of Christ's gospel who has crossed the desert under the guidance of its wild denizens, to feel, wlion ho spake these last words of courteous farewell to the sons of Ishmaol who had been his faithful guides and guards through the perils of the wilderness to Uie very threshold of civilization and town life, that the wish was a barren one. " There is no peace, saith my Goo, to the wicked." These poor barbarians are fast bound in tho toils of a fierce and false superstition, and the heart of the clergyman or the missionary has been sad within him at the thought that those who had rendered him cheerful service through dreary and diiBcult journeys should return to their native wilds in tho same state of ignorance of things spiritual, and Avith their future as uncheered by one gleam of a better hope as when first they became his companions. The countries over which the Bedowin roams have been as yet entirely excluded from the boundaries of that vast field of labour in which the missionary toils. The whole of Arabia, its cities and their inhabitants, its fertile valleys and pastoral tribes, has been altogether ex- cluded from that message of peace, that pro- clamation of mercy and pai'don, which has resounded in tho cars of savages of all races in all parts of the world. Arabia and the Bedo- win have not j'et heard the good news which has cheered the hearts of some — a very few, per- haps, but undoubtedly some — in each countiy or island of tho globe's remotest regions. Many circumstances have operated upon the missionary mind, tending to divert its energies into other channels, leaving Arabia still ne- glected, and many bold, zealous men have been deterred at the verj' outset from attacking this stronghold of a false creed. Space forbids tho enumeration even of these obstacles in this place, but there can be no doubt that they are numerous and great — almost insuperable, in fact, at present — and very special gifts of very diverse kinds, physical and intellectual, must he possess, in addition to his Christianity and his zeal, who would put his hand to God's work in Mahomet's native land. N :| } ' TUioUl (J I ^ THE FOKGlVENKtiS OF SIX. THE I'l^IJMT IN THE FAMILY. IIIK roKGlVKNtSS OK KIN. 'I'liioUBh tills uian U pnachwl unto yoii ihe forglvcncsa of elua."— A'tt xlll. 38. OH H Ha O i-i w Ii5 o » W i cc ■4' FIIS is the jjfospul ns tho upostlo J'lml proacluid it in tho Hynagfiguo at Antioch. lleing invittid to give a word of exhortation to tho people, after tho reading of tho hivv and tho prophets, lio declared that Jckus was the Metisiah promised to their fathers and predicted by the pro- phets; that ho was criuilied, dead, and buried, and that Ciud raised him again according to tlie Scrip- tures ; and having apjiealod to facts then quite recent and witliin tlie know- ledgo of his hearers, Lo confirmed his stnte- luents by testimonies out of tho Scriptures, toucluding with tho substance of tho gospel message, " Be it known unto you, men and Irethren, that by this man is preached unto yun tho forgiveness of nins, that by him all that believe aro justified from all things, from which ye could not bo justified by the law of :\Ioses." 1. Lot us consider tlie way of forgiveuesa, " through this man," It is not by a vague depondencL on the Diviuo mercy that forgiveness is to bo sought, nor by vain attempta to pleaho God by personal righteousness. God will by no means clear the guilty. Tho holy lawgiver requires a per- fect obedience, which no mere man can give. But " this man," this Divine man, undertook to meet the requirements of the Divine law. God dealt with him as a substitute and surety; oxactt;d from him the full penalty of the broken law ; hence he suffered, died, and was buried. God demanded obedience from him, and ho wrought a perfect righteousness; hence God raised him again, and idaced him at his right hand, in token of perfect satisfaction with him and all his work, both of obedience and sullVr- ing. And now he sends forth his ambassadors, to preach the glad tidings of forgiveness. By the deeds of the law can no man bo justi- fied ; by this way there is no salvation. But there is another way, and only one. It is through Jesus Christ. Consent, then, to God's ^vay of salvation. Renounce all dependence on self. You must bo condonmed when weighed in the balances of strict justice. Put no trust, therefore, in your own righteousness. Cease to plead other than guilty. Come, poor, and helpless, and lost, crj'ing, " God be merci- ful to me a sinner." Come through this luan. through whom alone is preached unto you tho forgivonciSH of .sins, 2. (Jonsidir tlie nattiro of the forgiveness that is preached. First, it is free. It is tho unnonni-oiiK'nt of a gift on tho part of Gud. It is tVto in the widest and most absolute sen.se. It took its .".rst origin in tho heart of (Jod, Tlii- first thought of it began with him, not witli us. The whole device and execution of it, fioia bi'gii'uing to end, was tlie work of (Jod. It was carried on, not by our help, but in spite of us. And tlioug'i wicked men fuKilled iho whole counsel of bud, when they put to death the Lord of glory, so soon as tho Lord Jesits was dead and risen, this fnie gos])eI (anie to the very men that crucified hiiuwitli cruel and wicked hands. The same f'orgivoncsH is now pioaclieil unto us, and that freely. Its very nature is its f'lee- ness. It does not come to glorify uk, but to glf)vify the goodness and grace, the majesty and tlie mercy of God. it is because wo could do nothing to save oiu'selvcs, that tJod has done everything to save us. ^'^ is because there is neither righteousness nor f ' onglh in us, that tho gospel comes with tho ughteous- noss and the strength of God. 'I'he gospel is no gospel if it is not free. If it is not free, then it is not true that no ilosii may glory in God's presence. It is sinners that are sought, that aro called, that aro offered foi-givoncss. God se-jks glory, and that to his grace and mercy; and that we may give ii him we must come empty — bring nothing, take everything. Tho forgiveness is free. Second. It is full. There is no dislinction, no separation of classes and sorts. When an amnesty is declared in a conquered country, there aro generally certain persons excepted, and certain classes of ofl'cndcrs are refused the benefit of the general act of gTace. But in tho gospel there is no excepted case, f;aving only he who sins against the Holy Ghost — a crime which no one has committed who is coming as a sinner to the foot of the cress, seeking salva- tion. It embraces and includes all tlie siiisj committed up to the very hour and moment of believing. It includes the sin of your nadue, and the sin that cleaves to you unconsciorisly. You have put it, iis it were, in God's hand. Like a skilful and strong and wise physician, he rejoices to attack the disease that is con- suming away tho very .strength of your bones ; and he will not leave you till health again throbs tlirough ytiur veins, and glows and gladdens on your cheek. Be it known to you, men and brethren, that through thia man, this full forgiveness is freely preached to every one of you. IT 7-i THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN. This furglvcncss is final. It is never jovoked. It is the act of (Jod, and God un- does uono of liis own work. It was a transac- tion Lotwocn the Father and Son ; it was done between tliem. The reasons were found in Christ ; the forgiveness came thi'ough him ; .and BO long as there is no change in him, so lung as God continues the unchanging and the uiichangeable God, so long this forgiveness remains as it was. You may ask me, Does this forgiveness remain in force if a man falls into sin, and abides in it, and altogether for- sakes God? The answer to such a queiy is this, that if a man can fall into sin and abide in it, can depart finally from God, then that man was never truly forgiven ; his sin remains ; ho is ii deceiver, has been deceiving others, or quite possibly onlj' himself. There are two natures in the forgiven man, an old and a new, and bet^veen them the conflict goes on with ever* varying success till the day of death, when the old nature finally dies, and is a bur- den no more. But to suy that a forgiven man can abide in sin, is to say that the old nature, with the devil for its strength and power, and the first Adam for its head, is stronger than the new nature, which, bom of God, has the Spirit of God dwelling in it, Christ for its living head, and God for its grace and strength. True forgiveness comes on the ground of Christ's finished work, who, in dying, bore thy sins in his own body. The change must be in liim, ere there can be a change in the forgive- ness. It has the nature of God in it. It rests on the word, and promise, and strength of God. It is as the Lord liveth, and because the Lord liveth, that thy soul liveth. Your life is hid with Christ in God. Let the sense of this foi^iveness once fairly enter mind and heart, and see what a change it will produce within. See if you cannot soon lell the meaning of peace in believing and joy in God. Go out into the world, lie down at night, rise up in the morning, saying : " I am a pardoned man. God hath forgiven me. I am past death, past hell, past despair", and dai'k- ness, and woe. I am pardoned, my heart is pure, my conscience is purged, I am safe." I i^iiy, believe that ; believe that you have that through this man. Honour the God of truth so far as to believe his word. Go out and go on in the strength of it, and see if you are not a new man ; tell me if all things have not passed away, and whether you cannot say, " Behold, all things are made new." And ever go on in this faith and this strength. Never once lose sight of this the first and funda- mental principle of the gospel, but hold fast this the beginning of your confidence stedfast unto the end, and your path will be as the shining light, shining more and more unto the perfect day. Ah ! it is because people do not really realize and act upon this, that there is so much of the hanging hands and the feeble knees among us. It is an awful fight to toil and strive along the Christian path without the sense of for- given sin. Obedience is cramped and con- strained. Till you can behold God as a loving Father, who has forgiven you, you want the very first principle which causes loye_ to spring up in the heart. Unforgiven sin is a thick black cloud between you and the sun, and causes thick darkness, and your^ path is blind and groping. Labour to enter into this rest. You will never know f eaoe till you do ; you will never be made glad with the joy of God till you accept this full and free salvation. STOPPED ON THE HIGHWAY. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF DANGER AND DELIVEUANCE. It was in the fall of the year 1838 that I sot out frpm home late one evening to walk a dis- tance of twelve miles into the country. It was for the greater part a solitary journey, and to add to its discomfort the absence of the moon rendered the night verj"^ dark, whilst a thick drizzling rain commenced shortly after my leaving, and continued throughout the whole length of my lonely way. Having no com- panion to cheer the solitude, I had only my own thoughts to beguile the tediousness. It was a road, too, that was occasionally attended with some danger to foot travellers ; but I was on the Lord's work, and feeling assured that his presence is always nigh, and that without his permission no evil can befal his sei-vants, " nor an hair of their head fall unto the ground," I gathered courago ; and committing myself to his gracious care, proceeded through the thick darkness, which so effectually ex- cluded objects from view thot I could scarcely distinguish the form of the umbrella which I carried for protection from the rain. At the present date, the locality is much improved, and where there was then only the highway with its cross-roads, persons have now the advantages of the railway, with its facilities and comforts. But I was well ac- quainted with the route, and had therefore not much difficulty in finding my way, whilst I had plenty of occupation for my thoughts in the important errand on which I was going, having on the next day to preach in a small town and an adjacent village— the former being the place of my present destination. It may not be out of place to state here that I STOPPED ON THE HIGHWAY. ( o ^ t in the earlier periods of my ministerial life, my duties entailed much hard work, and many long journeys on foot — so that, to walk twenty miles in the day and to preach two or three times wa« a weekly custom, but happily I was equal to my woik ; though after a few years I found my strength yielding to the great tax iijjon it, and my health also began to suffer, owing to weariness ond frequent exposure to the severity of the veather. But to return to my narrative. I had proceeded about ten miles of ray journey safely, and with no material impediment beyond what the extreme darkness naturally caused, with the unfavourable state cf the roads, which in many parts had become verj' miry ; whilst, where the trees overhung, the large drops battered heavily and rather dis- mally upon the umbrella, which in fact had a long while continued to shoot off a plentiful discharge of water from every point. I was absorbed in thought, which the still- ness of the night (it being nearly eleven o'clock) served to favour, wh«n suddenly 1 heard a slight rustling sound somewbei'e near, which attracted my whole attention for the moment. Before I could foiin an opinion as to its cause, and whether it might not proceed from some strayed horse or bullock, which cer- tainly I would not have wished to come into contact with, I was startled by the voice of a man from the opposite side of the road, au- thoritatively calling to me and bidding me in- stantly to " stop there." Surprised at this unexpected interruption, and somewhat alarmed by a sense of danger, my first impulse was, mentally, to call unto the Lord to help and protect me ; then, shutting my umbrella, by an extraordinary sort of im- pulse I went over towards the spot whence the voice camo ; when, to my horror, I perceived a man jumping down from the hedge upon me, with a large bludgeon in his hand, which he instantly upraised, as if intending by a blow therewith to fell me to the grotmd. I immediately spoke to him ; and in as calm a manner as I could assume, requested to know what he wanted of me, and why he had stopped me on the public road. lie at first gave me no answer, but i^tood before me with the stick still elevate 1 in the air, which I every moment feared and expected ho would bring down with a violojoe that perhaps might inflict some grievous, or it might be mortal, injury. It was a critical moment. But although I oould not in the least have competed with my antagonist, the Lord enabled me to feel a degree of composure which at the time surprised my mind ; it was certainly the result of Divine interference, and a voice seemed to say, " A thousand shall fiiii at thy side, and ten thousand at thy light hand, but it chall not come nigh thee." (IVa. xci. 7.) As I said, the mciU kept the stick raised, as if intending to strike, but from some peculiar cause it appeared lie cither hesitated in his pui-pose or was altogether unnerved. hi tlic nioanwhiio 1 was emboldened to rcppiit my question, and, without manifesting timidity, expressed a hope that ho would not attempt to injure me. He then answered, " Ko, I won't harm yon." " Then, pray put down the stick," I said ; but he did not, and I repeated my request : "Do remove that stick from over my head, and 1 will believe you/' " I do not mean to hurr- you," he answered ; " I would not, for I know you." Surprised at this statement — for I had no idea how it was possible I could be known to him, neither of us being able, by reason of the darkness of the night, to distingui-sh each other's features — I said, "A'hotc mk, do you ? Why, how is it possible you should have any knowledge of mo ?" " I DO know you," he again averred. " Then who am T ?" " You are the minister of ." " Pray how do you make that out ?" I said. "Why, sir," he answered in a subdued manner, while he put the stick down by his side, " I once heard you preach at ■ ', and just now when you spoke, though I could not see who you were, I knew you again by your voice ; so I would not harm you." This singular disclosure both surprised and pleased me, and therefore, feeling all appre- hension removed from my mind, I began to go on my way again, saying to the man : " I am indeed the person you describe, and am surprised at the recognition. I am noAv on the Lord my Master's work; and with the object of sei-ving him and, as I hope, doing some good to my fellow-creatures, by directing them to the ' Lamb of Qod who taketh awaj- the sin of the world,' I am out thu? late to- night on my .vay to town ; come along with me now, and let me talk with you." The man stuck close to my side, and we went on together some little distance, whilst I made inquiries of him respecting his lying in wait in the hedge at that hour of the night and in such weather. But to all ho kept mute : he neither answered my questions nor made any response to the remarks which I felt it a duty to press on his attention. He was evi- dently ill-disposed, and had lain in secrosy with some evil design. I doubt if any honest man would have boen whore he was and acted 70 STOrPED ON THE HIGHWAY. as ho did ; or else, certainly, if I had mistaken his purposes, he would have immediately told me so and set mo right, and not have continued silent to my words, particularly when seeking to ascertain the obji^ct he had in lying behind the hedge. After proceeding a short distance, he suddenly grasped my hand, then darted forward, sprang into a narrow lane on the left, and 1 entirely lost him. How 1 felt at that moment, so suddenly left again to my own reflections, I cannot describe ; but my first impressions were those of Jacob when awaking from sleep on his journey be- tween Beersheba and Haran (Gen. xxviii. 1(>): " Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." Oh ! how often we need some special circum- stance to be to our mind the remembrancer of our absolute dependence upon God. The pre- sence of God is always surrounding our path, and we cannot go from his presence nor flee from his Spirit. (Psa. cxxxix. 7 — 12.) But we do not always, perhaps, so recognise that pre- sence as when the Lord, by his interposing pro- vidence in the season of a threatening calamity, shows u'>' ho is still caring for us, remembering us, and is evBiywhere with us. We need occa- sionally some unusual and peculiar circum- stance or trial to prove to us that the Lord is " a God nigh at hand and not afar off." And then, like the patriarch, we attest our surprise that God was still so near, when perhaps we thought ourselves " all alone ;" that in this or that crooked troubled path, so intricate to our minds, so trying to our spirits, so dark to our comprehensiun, he was there too, in his aiding, supporting, protecting, saving providence, love, and grace. " I knew it not." Oh ! what joy to our souls to make the discovery, by what- ever means it may be, that God is very nigh unto us. But we ought always to believe so if we are his people and servants, for "the luigel of the Lord encampeth roimd about them that fear him, and delivereth them." (Psa. xxxiv. 7.) liescucd so remarkably from the danger in which I had been placed, my heart was lifted up in gratitude to tho Almighty for his mer- ciful and timt;ly providence, and I went on some way ejaculating portions of his word, as — " The Lord is thy keeper ; the Lord is thy shade on thy right hand ; the Lord shall pre- serve thee from all evil ; he shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in fi-om this time forth and for ever." (Psa. cxxi. 7, 8.) I blessed him for his protecting hand, and also that he had enabled mo at tho moment nof to endeavour to make my escape from tho man, which at- tempt, perhaps, would have altogether failed ; but to speak, and to speak in tho natural tones of my voice, by which I was instantly recog- nised, and which prevented the violence that probably would otherwise have been dune unto me. It was near midnight when I arrived at my friend's house, to whom I narrated tho occur- rence, and then we joined together in ofl'ering unto the Lord the praise due unto his gieat goodness. In the week following, inquiries were set en foot in the neighbourhood, to trace if possible the individual, but nothing could bo e^ficited ; and to the present he remains unknown, a« probably will continue to be the case until that day when all secrets shall be made public, and the hidden works of darkness, with all that is treasured up in the Divine remembrance, shall be brought to light, I can only hope that the few words I addressed to the man may have been blessed by the Holy Spirit unto his eter- nal good. Then, in more senses than one, we shall be constrained to give glory unto God, and say, " This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes." CHOICE SAYINGS OF DYING SAINTS. PART II. Thk great reformer, John Knox, when he lay a-dying, was much in pi-ayer, ever crying, " Come, Lord Jesus, into thy hands I commend ray spirit." Being asked by those that at- tended him if his pain was great, he answered, " That he did not esteem that a pain which would be to him the end of all trouble, and the beginning of eternal joys." Ofttimes, after some deep meditation, he said, "0 serve the Lord in fear, and death shall not be terrible to you : blessed is the death of those that have part in the death of Jesus." After a sore temptation from Satan, over which he triumphed at length, he said : " Now tho enemy has gone away ashamed, and shall no more return. I am sure my battle is now at an end, and that, withoTit pain of body, or trouble of spirit, I shall chortly change this mortal and miserable life for that happy and immortal life which shall never have an end." After one had prayed for him, he was asked whether he heard the prayer. He answered, " Would to God you had heard it with such an ear and heart as 1 have done !" adding, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." With which words, without any motion of hands or feet, as one falling asleep rather than dying, ho ended his; life. 3Ir. John Bradford, a minister and martyr in qTieeu Mary's reign, when tho keeper told him that the* next day he was to be burnt in \ i |S .«^, .1 |1 4 CHOICE MAYINGS OF DYING SAINTS. f Sniithfield, ho put oflF his cap, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, waid, " I thank God, for it comes not now to me on a Midden, but as a thing waited for every day and hour ; the Lord make me worthy thereof." One Cresewell offering to intei-pose for him, and desiring to know what his request was, ho yaid, " 1 have no request to make ; if the queen gives me my life, 1 will thank her; if she will banish me, I will thank her ; if she will burn me, I will thank her ; if she will condemn mc to pei-petual imprisonment, I will thank her." The chan- cellor pressing him to do as others had done, in hopes of the queen's mercy, he said, " My lord, 1 desire mercy with God's mercy, that is, without doing or saying anything against God and his truth. But mercy with God's wrath, God keep me from. God's mercy," added he, " I desire, and also would be glad of the queen's favour to live as a subject without clog on conscience ; but otherwise, the Lord's mercy is better to me than life. Life in his displeasure is worse than death, and death in his favour is true life." In one of his meditations, after confession of sin, he said : " what now may we do ? Des- pair ! No : for thou art God, and therefore good ; thou art merciful, and therefore thou forgivest sin ; with thee there is mercy and propitiation, and therefore thou art worshipped. When Adam sinned, thou gavest him mercy he desired it ; and wilt thou deny us who now desire the same ? Adam cx- his fault, and accused thee, but we ourselves, and excuse thee ; and shall sent empty away ? How often in the Avilderness didst thou spare Israel, and defer thy plagues, at the request of Moses, when the people themselves made no petition to thee ! Now, wo do not only make our petitions to thee, but also have a IMediator, far above Moses, to appear for us, even Jesus Christ thine own Son ; and shall we, dear Lord, depart ashamed ?" In a letter to Mrs. Anne Warcup, he said : '• My staff standeth at the door. I look con- tinually for the sheriff to come for me ; and I bless God I am ready for him. Now I go to practice that which I have preached. Now I am climbing up the hill; it will cause me to puff and blow before I come to the cliff. The hill is steep and high, my breath is short, my strength is feeble. Pray therefore to the Lord for me that, as 1 have now through his good- ness almost come to the top, I may by his grace bo strengthened not to rest till I come where I should be." He was singular for humility and self-abase- ment, tliough a most eminent saint. He sub- scribed some of his letters, " The most miser- before morsy, cused accuse wo bo able, hard-hearted, unthankful sinner, John Bradford." Mr. Hooker, a minister in New England, when one that stood weeping at his bed-side as he lay a-dying, said to him, " Sir, you are going to receive the reward of all your la- bours," replied, " Brother, 1 am going to receive meicy." Holy and learned Mr. Kutherford, when his death drew near, said : " I shall shine. 1 shall see him as he is : I shall see him reign, and all his fair company- with him ; and I shall have my large share : my eyes sliall see my Re- deemer, these very eyes of mine, and no other for me." When exhorting one to be diligent in sefiking God, he said : " it is no easy thing to be a Cliristian ; but for me I have gotten the victory, and Christ is holding out both his arms to embrace me." He was wonderfully strengthened against the feare of suffering and of death ; for, says he, " I said to the Lord, if he should slay me five thousand times, 1 would trust in him ; and I spoke with much trem- bling, fearing I should not make my part good. But, as really as ever he spoke to mo by his Spirit, he witnessed unto my heart that his grace should be sufficient for me." He said to some ministers that came to see him : " My Lord and Master is the chief of ten thousand of thousands ; none is comparable to him in heaven o .• in earth. Dear brethren, do all for him ; pray for Christ, preach for (.'hr'.st, feed the flock committed to your charge ftr Christ, visit and catechise for Clirist ; do all for Christ, and beware of man-pleasing. Feed the flock out of love ; the chief Shepherd will appear shortly." Once, when he recovered from a fainting fit, ho said, " I feel, I feel, I believe, I enjoy, 1 rejoice, I feed on manna." Af(er some discourse, Mr. Blair said to him, " What think j-ou now of Christ ?" To which he replied, " I shall live and adore him : glory, gloiy to my Creator, and to my Redeemer for evei-." Afterwards he said, " O that all my brethren did know what a Master I have sei-ved, and what peac!e 1 have this day ; I shall sleep in Christ, and when I awake, I shall be satisfied with his likeness." Then he said, " This night shall close the door, and put mj- anchor within the vail ; I shall go away in a sleep by five of the clock in the morning ; " >vhich exactly fell out. That night, though ho was veiy weak, he often had this expression, " for arms to embrace him ! O, for a well-tuned harpl" When one spoke of his former pain- fulness and faithfulness in the work of God, he said, " I disclaim all that ; the port I would bo in at, is redemption, and forgiveness of sins through his blood." His last words were, "Glory, glory dwoUeth in Emmanuel's land." u^t iax t^e f 0«ng, THE PILGRIMS AND THEIR PITCHERS. DR. JAMES HAMILXOX, It was loiig ago, and somewhere in the eastera clime. The kiiig came into the garden and called the cliil- dron round him. He led them up to a sunny knoll with a leafy arbour on its summit ; and wlicn they Ii'ad all sat down, he said : " You see far down the river, and hanging as on the side of the hill, yon palace ? It is a palace -though here it looks so little and far away, i But when you reach it, you will find it a larger and sweeter home than this ; and when jou come, you will find that I have got there before you. And when yea arrive at the gate, that they may know that you belong to me, and may let you in, hero is what each of you must take with him." And he gave to each of the chil- dren a most beautiftd porcelain jar— a little pitcher so exquisitely fashioned that yon were almost afraid to touch it, so pure tliat you could see the daylight through it, and with delicate figures raised on its sides. " Take this, and carry it carefully. Walk steadily, and the journey will soon be over." But they had not gone far before they forgot. One was running carelessly and looking over his shoulder, when his foot stumbled, and as he fell full lengtli on the stony path the pitcher was shivered in a thousiuvd pieces ; and one way and another, long before they reached the palace, they had broken all the pitchers. When this happened, I may mention what some of them did. Some grew sulky, and knowing that it was of no use to go forward without the token, they began to shatter the fragments still smaller, and dashed the broken sherds among the stones, and stamped them with their feet ; and then they said, " Why trouble ourselves about this palace ? It is for away, and here is a pleasant spot. We wiU just stay here and play." And so tlioy began to play. Another could not play, but sat wrmging his hands, and wecpiiig bitterly. Another grew pale at first, but recovered his composure a little on observing that his pitcher was not broken so bad as some others. There n-ere three or four large pieces, and these he put togcUier as well as ho could. It was a broken pitcher that would hold no water, but by a little care he could keep it together ; and so he gathered courage, and began to walk along more cautiously. Just then, a voice accosted the weeping boy, and look- ing up he saw a very lovely form, with a sweet and plea- sant countenance— such a countenance as is accustomed to bo happy, though somctliing for the present has made it sad. And in his band he held just such a pitcher as the little hoy had broken, only the workmanship waa more exquisite, and the colours were as bright as tlu rainbow round the stranger's head. " You may have it,' lie Raid ; " it is better than the one you have lost ; anc. though it is not tlie same, they will know it at the gate." The little mounier could scarcely believe that it was ruAlly meant for him ; but the kind looka of tlie stranger eiK-ouragcd him. Ho held out liis hand for tlic stranger's vase, and gave a sob of joyful surprise when he found it his own. He began liis journey ag^in, and you would littvo liked to see how tenderly no carried his treasure, and how carefully he picked his M«ps, «iid iiow some- times, when he gave another look at it, the tear would flu his eye ; and he lifted up his happy thankful face to heaven. The stranger made the same offer to the playing boys, but by tliis time tliey were so bent on their new amuse- ments, that they did not care for it. Some saucy cliil- dren said ho might leave his presont there if ho liked, and they would take it when tliey were ready. Ho passed away, and spoke to the boy who was carrying the broken pitcher. At first he would have denied that it waa broken, but the traveller's clear glance had already seen it all ; and so he told him, " You had bettor cast it away, and have this one in its stead." Tlic boy woiUd have been very glad to haveithis new one, but to throw away tho relics of his own was what he could never thiuk o£ They were his chief dependence every time he thought of the journey's end ; so lio thanked the stranger, and clasped his fragments firmer. The boy with the gift-pitcher and tliis other reached the precincts of the pnlaco about the (same time. Tliey stood for a little and looked on. Tliey noticed some of the bright-robed inhabitants going out and in ; and every time they passed tho gate, they presented such a token ns they themselves had once got from the king, but had broken so long ago. The boy who liad accepted the kind stranger's present now went forward, and held it up ; and whether it was tho light glancing on it from tlic pearly gate, I Ciinnot tell, but at tliat instant its owner thought tliat it liad never looked so fair. He who kept the gate seemed to think the same, for he gave n friendly smile, as much as to say, "I know who gave you that;" and immediately tho door was lifted up and let the little pilgrim in. The boy with the broken pitcher now began to wisli that his choice had been tlie same ; but tliero was no help for it now. He adjusted tlio fragments ns skilfully as ho could, and tiyiug to look courageous, carried tliem in both his hands. But lie who kept the gate was not to bo deceived. He sliook his head, and tliere was that BOiTOw in his look wliich leaves no hope. Tlio bearer of the broken pitclier still held fast his useless sherds ; but he soon found that it was vain to linger. Tho door con- tinuedshut. -, •■:> ■•'.•' ■•■ ■;•■'■■ t ■ *^* The key to tho parable of the Pilgrims and llioir Pitchers will be found in the following passages : — Gal. ii. 16 ; Bom. iii 19—26 ; Acts xiii. 39. r'.r, MENTAL SCENES AND PICTURES. n. On a lonely mountain peak, whose rocky slopes are strewn witli the blackened and disfigured remains of ^•uman beings, is seated a man of stem and imposing appearance. Absorbed in meditation, he retains an atti- tude of calm and majestic composure, unmoved by the awful solemnity of tho scene around liim, until tlio ap- proach of a band of armed men, when, yielding to tlio urgent but respectful entreaty of tlicir leader, ho rises and descends the moimtaiu with them. I w tl P h; T ta P' m la sil ru foi vi( rai yo - wl op; ncss of p ciation of in liis su Heaven, minds us ' n Puril Oud of I , punislied ; guage in \ •i tizcd the j his counti .% left tho sc I had used 1 f that wldcJi I Knox, tha f witliinthe I large publ ;| cJirist, and i country an: I effect from f the " ofTdpi I out how, w .:;■ ones of the :f tion and n I ous." ho re I cancer." ;| continues I These opini vhave been I of Italy, I Tho pop ■ past month, '- in tlie most tJio c.ardina .jjcity. Wem tllniiil as the ] Jof tlio peop ulcrs. Till inues its sti jyabic fortrci lA^'ninBt thet a'lflcT, the *i;ic'li, were car woulvl ul &ec to ying boys, ,e\v amui5c- jaucy ckil- f ho liked, •eady. Ho arrying the lied that it atl akcady tter cost it hoy would ut to throw •ould never I every time haiikcd the her readied time. Tht>;_ iced some of a ; and every such a token dng, l)ut iiad iger's present liether it was ;ate, I cimnot ! that it Imd to seemed to ', as much as I immediately rim in. 3cgnn to wish there was no ts as skilfully , carried tliem Eito woB not to lero was that Tlio bearer of <3 sherds ; but riio door con- ims and Ihoir passages : — TJBBS. ky elopes arc ed remains of and imposing ■etains an atti- imoved by the , until tlio ap- ieldiug to tlio cadcr, ho rises lltligbxts Intjelligtnrt January, 1801. Ii' we may judge from the Bigniflcaut indicationa wliicli mark the horizon of continental Europe, the year 1861 ia pregnant with events oa im- portant in their reUgious bearing as any that have occurred during the last twelve months. The precarious tenure by which Pius ix. still re- tains the shadow of temporal power in a limited porfion of his former territories may end at any moment. In spite of the insalubrity and deso- lation of the Campagna, amid which Borne ia situated, it ia evident that the Italians look for- wird to its transfer from .sacerdotal to secular rule as the crowning achievement of their struggle for national unity. >^-'ch ia the well-known con- viction of that woua^rful man who has been raised up in so remarkable a manner to break the yoke of despotism and priestcraft by which tlie whole of Southern Italy was long and grievously oppressed. The patriotic Garibaldi, in liis sir lio- ness of purpose, his stem and uncompromising dr lun- ciation of " wickedness in high places," and, above all, in Ills success with what, but for the blessing of Heaven, wo should call very inadequate means, re- minds us sometimea of the most distinguished ol'uur ■ n Puritans— sometimes of the jutlges by whom the Oud of Israel effected hia people's deliverance, and punished the injustice of their oppressors. The lan- ', guage in which Garibaldi haa more than once stigma- ,! tizcd the papacy as the source of the evils from which I hia countrjonen auffer, ia very remarkable. Before he > Mt tlie scene of hia triumphs in continental Italy, he $ had used language with reference to the pope more like M that which might be expected from some modern John f Knox, than from one who is, nominally at leaat, still I witliin the Bomish communion. Ho had declared, in a I large public assembly in Naples, the pope to be Anti- 1 clirist, and the source of all the evils from which his i country suffers. More recently he writes to the same I effect from hia retreat at Caprera. He calls the papacy f the " offspring of ignorance and auperstition," and points § out how, while it engenders hypocrisy among the great I ones of the earth, it leads, among the poor, to degrada- 4- tion and mi.sery. " Albion became great and proaper- II ous," ho remarks, " wh6n she courageously cut off that I cancer." Borne (he continues) ceaaed to be great, and ^ continues prostrate, because afflicted by tliat scourge. '^ These opinions, promulgated by such a man, can hardly liave been without considerable effect upon the people of Italy. The popUiOi iceling has been manifested during the past month, at Naples, towards the cardinal archbishop, in tiie most unmistakable mauner — cries of "Down with ^Ithe cardinal !" having been raiaed on hia return to that |city. We may expect further demonstrations of the aame Ikiiul as the preaent movement proceeds. And the feeling ^f tiie people is in entire harmony witli that of their ulcra. Tlio government of king victor Emmanuel con- ;inucs its steady warfare against those hitiierto impreg- blc fortrcases of priestly power — the monastic ordera. jfaiiiet these proceedings, so far aa they refer to his own ider, the General of the Jesuits has issued a protest, ijvhieh, were his cause not identified with superstition and misgovemmcnt, might well move oiu- pity. Yet, if we may judge by a counts from Italy, bearing the impress of impartiality, every reasonable precaution appears to bo token, in effecting the abolition of conventual establish- ments, to avoid the infliction of unnecessary hardship upon individuals. Such, at all events, ia tlie policy adopted by the Marquis Pepoli, governor of the newly- constituted and extensive province of Umbria, which till very recently formed an unportant part of the pope's dominions, and whither monks of all kinds fled after their dispersion in tiio provinces previously annexed to Sardinia. The marquis haa publislied a decree, in twenty-one articles, in which he abolishes " all the cor- porations and establishments, of any kind whatever, of monastic orders, and of regular and secular bodies," with the exception of the " Do-good Brethren " a charitablo community, chiefly in charge of the hospitals — and tho " Bretliren of the Pious Schools," who aro engaged in the work of elementary education. The chapters of collegiate churches, simple boncflccs, chap- laincies, and all pious foundations or legacies, ccch>- aiaatical patrimonies, etc., whenever they enjoy a re- venue exceeding tho amount necessary to tho fulfilment of tlie duties attached to similar institutions, aro also abolished. The properties of tho suppressed corpora- tions pass .nto tho possession of a government depart- ment, instituted to secure their better administration, entitled " The Ecclesiastical Treasury." TJie monks of some of tho suppressed orders aie to remain in pos- session of their property till they dwindle down to tha number of three members, when they aro to bo pon- sioned off. All others are to quit their religious houses within forty days from the date of the decree ; but tho nuns, by givmg notice mi' - the same period, may remain in their present houses, or bo removed to other cloisters which may bo assigned to them. The "breth- ren" and "sisters" of the suppressed communities ara to receive a pension, proportioned to tho present net revenue of tho house to which they belong, varying from eight hundred francs to (in the case of servants) two hundred and fifty francs. The first charge upon tha " Ecclesiastical Treasury " will be the pensions in ques- tion; the surplus funds will bo devoted to alleviating the wants of the poor parochial clergy of country dia- tricta. " It is against the drones, not the bees of tha church," aays one writer, "that war is declared, and even the former insects are treated with a gentlonesa which may either spare them if they ore willing to ha turned to any useful purpose, or leave them (o dia quietly away in the blessed idleness which tliey cliooso as a state of ascetic perfection upon earth." The present position of tho papacy appears tho mora remarkable when we remember how difterent it must ba from what was anticipated by its present representativa and his councillors, when they assembled in St. Peter's, in such solemn pomp, a few years since, to promulgate authoritatively tho new dogma of the Immaculate Con- ception. The Virgin, whose special favour Pius ix. ex- pected to secure by that proceeding — who, indeed, ho prophesied would restore to " tho Church " her fonncr glory and prosperity — haa reaponded as little to tho prayers of Iier devotees as did Baal of old to tho passionate outcries of hia priests, when they were upon T^ 80 EELIG lOUS i NTELLiGENCE. tho eve of their downfall. Tlio 8th of tho present i\iontli WHS the unniversiiry of tlmt inpious corunioniiil by which Muriohtry wan declared iiii eaaentinl dogma of the church of Rome. Fnince— ulthough ready aa ever to advance her secn- lar interests, in China or elsewhere abroad, by espousing the quarrels of her priests wlio can boast that they are also Frenchmen — has been for some time post on any- thing but amicable terms with tho pope, and matters tlircaten to grow worse. At the present moment at least six bishoprics ore vacant in France„in consequence of tho pontiff having hitherto withheld tho necessary oonflrmotion of tho eorlier of these appointments, or "nominations," made by the emperor, in accordnnce with tho terms of tho French Concordat. As the pope has never accepted certoin presentees long since desig- nated by tho Imperial Government for episcopal honours, the latter, when a bishopric now falls vacant, does not mfkc any presentation whatever, and tho diocese re- mains without a Bpiritual head. The French people begin to feci that tlieir national dignity is involved, and one public writer proposes that France shall dispense with the pope oltogether. Such is .;he drift of a pumphlet, by M. Cayla, entitled, ' The Pope and the Emiuror,' which lias excited not a little attention throughout Europe, and has been denounced officially by Pius IX. himself. Tlio AuHtrion Concordat, so different from the French in its large concessions to the papacy, will doubtless be revised or completely ulwlislicd. In fact, it has never been fully carried out. And in this matter agoin the court of Rome becomes a loser where slie had hoped to gain. There is one land, indeed, where Romanism still flourisliea with an exclusivencsa and in a spirit of intolerance which might have been natural in the six- teenth century, but in the nineteenth must awaken our sorrow and indignation. Wo refer to the Spanish penin- sula. The most bigoted country in Europe, it is also the most ignorant, and has shared, less than any other, in tho i'ltellectual and social progress of the age. Yet even h\ that benighted land there are those who, in incre.ising numbers, seek a purer worship tlian they are abl'j to enjoy in the communion of Rome. Tho con- version of one of these — u young priest named Alonzo, residing in Granada — has become tho occasion of a general persecution. Several of those known or sus- pected to have become converts to Protestantism — some accounts say eight or twelve, and one mentions fifteen — were arrested and imprisoned ; others fled in various directions, and five or six escaped to Gibraltar and Marseilles. The most detailed accounta which hove been received relate to Manuel Matamoros, of Barcelona, and Jose Alhama, of Granada. Both are personally known to Dr. Tregellcs, tho well-known Biblical critic, ■who, with several other gentlemen, have presented a memorial upon tho subject to her Majesty's foreign secretary. This document states that Manuel Mata- moros is a man of excellent character, formerly a soldier, but who purchased his discharge, and has since, as well as previously, been engaged in diffusing tho gospel among his countrymen. He was arrested on a charge made against him in Grenada, and consigned to the prison in Barcelona, and after having been confined tliere several weeks, he has been summoned by the uouueil of Grenada to appear there, and it is expected that he will be forced to travel about seven hundred miles on foot, bound with a gang of criminals, and be asso- ciated with murderers and other felons ; that he will be eoiiflned ni most loathsome prisons, in the various places he will pass through on his way to Grenada ; and that, us lio is in very delicate health, such a journey will prove highly dangerous to his life. Jose Alhama is a working hatt(;r, a man much re.speeted, very active in doing good, and is now a prisoner in Grenada for the sole offence of having quitted tho church of ll.ii:ii Tho families of these good men are roducel lo great misery and want in consequence of their imprisonment. To the facts thus stated in the mc^morial. Dr. Tregullea added that the law of. Spain inflicts, as tho punishment of apostacy, or worshipping contrary to the principles cf tho church of Rome, eight years' imprisonment with hard labour. This is a penalty which few persons wlm hove been accustomed to hard labour can endure, Tlu deputation hod the advantage of being introduced to Lord John Russell by that veteran diplomatist and friend of religious liberty, Lord Stratford do Redelifl'o. Both the noble lords expressed themselves favourable to the general object of the deputation ; and the former, while pledging himself to do whatever might promise a beneficial result in the way of diplomatic action, urged, as a yet more effectual means of securing the recog- nition of the rights of conscience, the efforts of oasocia- tions and individuals in tho creation of a powerful public opinion at home, which might make itself influentially felt abroad. Several letters have been received frorii Matamoros, written in liis prison at Barcelona, all of which breathe a spirit of resignation under his sufferings, combined with unshaken constancy to tho truth as it is in Jesus. A letter from Dr. Livingstone to the Bishop of Oxford has been received, expressing the doctor's satisfaction that a mission to the interior of Africa has been under- taken by the universities. " By my letter respecting the opening mode into tho highland lake region from tht Shire," he writes, "you will have seen that simul- taneously with your prayerful movement at home, onr steps have been directed to a field which presents :i really glorious prospect for the mission, By the Shire j'ou get easily past the unfriendly border tribes, and then the ridge, wliich rises on the east to a height of eight thousand feet, affords variations of climate witliin a few miles of each other. The region bathed by the lakes is pre-eminently a cotton-producing one, and, as far as we can learn from Burton and Speko, the people possess the same comparative mildness of disposition n- I observed generally prevailing away from the sin coast. 'Viewing tho field in all its bearings, it sceni- worthy of the universities and of the English churcli ; and bearing in mind and heart Him who promised, ' Lc I am with you alway, even to tho end of the world,' there is not the shadow of a doubt but that her mission will become a double blessing — to our own overcrowded home population, and to the victims of blavery and tli ■ slave trade throughout the world. Let the church ol England only enter upon this great work with a will, and nations and tribes will bless her to the latest genera- tions." The Central African Mission, thtis refeiTcd tu, has already sailed. It consists of Archdeacon Maeken- zio (who will hereafter be consecrated a bishop), lii> sister, two clergymen, a lay superintendent of inaustria! works, a carpenter, and a farm labourer. Others wii! shortly follow, until the clerical members of the missio: ore at least six in number. As to the exact spot they will occupy, they will be guided by information they oii to receive from Dr. Livingstone. An extraordinary spiritual awakening has just takci: place in Jamaica, and at tl^e date of the latest account- was spreading in tho various uistricts of tlie island, A writer on the spot, having given details, says : " Few, ii any, expected such a manifestation of God's power as is now being put fortli. The awakening seems to have appeared first in tho lowlands of St. Elizabeth's ami amongst the Moravians, and then to have spread to Westmoreland, Hanover, Manchester, and was gradually extending itself to St. James's and Trelawny. Tho excitement is such as no one in the island has evet known before, and the missionaries ore worn out by in- cessant labour." irst 1 I t\,h, l^v.. ^^ fi^t'C P-'^-aj THE • ( Imrch of R.iisi rodueel lo grout lir iniprisomnt'ut inl, Dr. TrcguUea I tho punislimotit tlie principles n( iprisonmeiit with few perBous who an endure. Tin ng introduced td diplomatist ami iord de Kciluliffo. ves fiivourablo to ; and the former, might promise a tic action, urged, uring the recog- ifforts of aasociu- a powerful public tself influeutially en received from Barcelona, all of der his sufferings, tho truth as it is Bishop of Oxfonl ictor's satisfaction , has been undov- ;ter respecting the' 3 region from the seen that siinul- lent at home, our which presents ;i on, By the Shire jorder tribes, and iBt to a height of of climate witiiiii on bathed by the ucing one, and, as Spcko, the peoplf i of disposition ns *y SUNDAY AT HOME % iaimhi Mm^^t for S:ibb:it{i pairing. from tho sia bearings, it seeni- English churcli : ho promised, 'Lo. ind of the world,' . that her mission own overcrowded blavery and tlu rot the church o vork with a will, the latest genera- tlitis refeiTcd hi, hdeacon Mackeiv lid a bishop), hi; dent of industrial irer. Others will 3rs of the missioi exact spot they brmation they nvu Qg has just taken le latest account! )f the island, A Is, says : " Few, ii Sod's power as is seems to have Elizabeth's aivl have spread to ind was gradually Trelawny. The _ island has ever worn out by in- nilKUDLV ISTEKVIKW WITH Till; K.SyLI5IAUX. g I NOTES FEOM AN ARCTIC DIARY. I II. |Dn Augnst 7th tho ' Investigator' ronndecl Point fBarrow, being tho first shi]) which had done so. |!rho following morning Mr. Miertscliing was groused from his sleep at three o'clock, his >Bcrviccs as interpreter being required for the ' "^rst time, the man stationed in the " crow's lest " having seen people on land. A boat was loon ready, and Mr. Miertsching and Mr. Court ■ere rowed to the shore. They wore met by iree Esquimaux men, at the sight of whom 10 missionary almost fancied himself again in No. 356.— Publish Ei> FEBuuAnv U, 1801. Labrador ; there were the same figures, faces, and clothing, and, better still, tho same lan- guage, tho difference of dialect not occasioning any difiicnlty in understanding them. They pointed out their tents at a di.stanf(!. and invited the strangers to visit them. This being de- clined, they hastily departed, no d(m})t to give an account of their proceedings : they had seen the ship the previous day, and these men liad been depnted to follow it along tho shore. Next day these Esquimaux came ofl' in great numbers, bringing fish and sea-fowl, which thoy bartered for tobacco. As the fish became smaller, the pieces of tobacco were cut asunder : Price One Pennv. OS XOTKS FL'OM AN A1{CTIC IJIAIIV. i llils prorxH'iliup; they iuutalod diioctly by ciit- thig cacli lisli in two, clerninuliiig llio pa^'munl tor half Hint ■waa intcudtil fur tliu wliolc. They icccivod many prescntM, and were re- ([nest.cd, if wliitu men canio 1o them over Ihe ice, to treat them kindly, and give thorn rein- deer Hesh to cat, which the;; iiromisod to do. l»nt havinp; now ohiuined all tlicy could yet honestly, they Le,'j;an 1o Kieal, and wore forth- with oi-dered into fhoir boats, and forbidden to ctjme on board npiin. Another visit from tho Esqiximanx was re- ceived on Sunday, August tho 11th. Although a strict watch Avas kept on deck duiing the time of Divine service, they succeeded in conveying Kovoral tiling!^ into tlioir boats, and, before tho theft was discovered, had disappeared among tho ice. Soon after tents were seen on an island near tho mouth of the Colvillo ]{ivor. A jiavty from tlio ship attempting to land, was at first opposed by tho natives, armed with knives, spears, ond bows ; but finding no harm was intended thet^^ they became veiy friendly. These people, milike those of Point Drew, A\-cro well cl'jthcd and clean. Their chief, a line-looking and intelligent man, named Attiia, received a boat-flag and other presents from tho captain, in return for which ho promised to convey letters to the Kussian ti-aders on tho Colvillo ; but, unhappily, with the Esquimaux, promiso and porfoimanco are two difierent things. It docs not appear that any of tho letters Captiiin M'Cluvo hoped to forward in this mamier ever reached their destination, Tho next interview is thus described by Mr. Miertsching. " Saturday, August 24th. — This morning we sailed near the coast, and, as usual, saw Esqui- maux tents. Some of the crew, who have a verj' keen sight, asserted that they saw also a man in European clothing. Thereupon the captain determined to land, and wrote several letters, in order to forward them by those people to the Europeans on tho Mackenzie iJiver. A white flag was hoisted, and then the captain, Dr. Armstrong, and I, with six sailors, rowed to the shore. "We found only a few Esquimaux, who threatened us with knives, spears, and bent bows. Evoiy attempt to ap- proach these wild men in a friendly manner failed, but tho captain was imwilling to return without having spoken to them. At length, after several vain attempts, I succeeded in ap- proaching within ten paces of them. I spoke to them kindly, and they at last ceased their outcry and listened, but told me, pointing to the ship, that wo must go back again. I had picked up several of their arrows ; those I re- turned, venturing still nearer; but they be- came angry again, and I thought it advisable tu lire my )iistuls in tho air to show 1 meant no harm. This Avas not without cllbct. Tlicy listened to )no quietly, and after a Mhile con- sented to lay down their anns. The captain and the others, also unarmed, now drew near. We became at length wich good friends, that they offorcd us th<;ir newl3--built wooden house as a dwelling, and gave us birds, fish, and leiu- deor skins in exchange for knives and saws. Their friendship became still greater when we told them of our visit to Attua. Kairoluak, tho principal man, was esjKjcially pleased, saying, ' Ilo is a great chief.' This man possessed a good house and two tents. Everywhere reigned the greatest order and cleanliness, more than 1 have cvei- seen before among tho Esquimaux, riles of dried skins of tho reindeer, bear, fox, and badger wore ready for sale. They had never before seen Europeans, and have no dealings with tho lludson's Bay traders on the Mackenzie, but carry their wares westward, and barter them with Attua. " I wished to talk longer with these people and toll them something of their Creator and Eedecmer, hut tho captain called out, ' Tho ship is aground!' and we were obliged to return hastily to our boat. These Esquimaux put to sliamo many Christians, since they undertake long journeys to barter their skins for useful artiebs, instead of exchanging them nearer homo for brandy. This they had done once, but they repented of their folly, and said, ' The evil water killed some of us, and made tho others foolish.' " They told a story of some strangers having como there without a boat, and built a house on a distant promontory'. They disappeared one by one, and Kairoluak afBrmed that ho found the last dead on the gi'ound, and buried him. It was impossible to learn when this happened ; the Esquimaux ai"e not exact chro- nologors. ' Perhaps two years ago, or perhaps when I was a child,' is often their nearest approximation to a date. On visiting the spot pointed out, nothing was found but two niiucd ]:]squimaux winter houses built of drift-wood, a tew broken stone lamps, and other trifles, all old and overgrown with moss, but not the sliglitest trace of Europeans." The coast of the American continent appeared to be well peopled. AVhencver the ship ap- proached the shore, tents were seen; but, on account of tho shallow water, it was nccessarj- to keep as far from land as the ice w-ould permit. The last interview with the Esqui- maux at this time shall also be narrated in the worthy inteipreter's oviti words. " Saturday, August 31st. — After breakfast, the captain. Dr. Anustvong, and I, with eight sailors, started in a sailing-boat, carrying with 'US pv' \Vc s vitlv sail a mont preseil fishinl foundl newlJ sailedl pointi: peopl anothj as the could I tclosci the fosod a whore reigned !, more tlian I Esquimaux, ccr, lear, fox, • They ]iad md liave no raders on the es westward, these peoi)lo Creator and i out, 'The > obliged to 3 Esquimaux since they • tlioir skins mging them ey had done ly, and eaid, I, and made gers liaving lilt a house iisappeared sd that he and buried when this exact chro- or perliajis 3ii' nearest g the spot two iniiucd irift-wood, trifles, nil t not the t appeared ship ap- but, on nccessarj- ce woul'd 10 Esqui- I :ed in the | Jreakfast, ith eight ■ing with NOTES FKOM AN ARCTIC DIAIIY. 80 'iiB provisions for the day and snitablo presents. Wo steertid towards the spot whore we parted with the two women yesterday, iuleudiug to sail alon^- the coast till wo reaehod the pro- montory which they had pointed out aa the pi'osent abodo of tho men who wore whale- fishini:,-. "^I'lio ground, on which jcslerday wo f(jund many flowers, waa to-day covered with newly-fallen snow seven inches de(!p, ^\o sailed ton miles before reaching tho place pointed out by the women, and found uo people there. Eivo miles farther we camo to anothei' promontory, and wcro about to return, as the shallow water proved that hero there •could be no whales, when, looking through a telescope, I descried elevations, which, when the fog lifted for a fuw minutes, revealed them- selves as Esquimaux dwellings. Wo counted about thirty tents and three houses. Over a .small tongue of land tho sea was visible. AVo ^vere now certain that wo bad reached Cape liathnr.st. " Wo had scarcely landed, when the people eauio in a swarm to meet us, brandishing spears and knives, and uttering frightful yells; the Avonicn following with resen'o weapons. The (japtain asked, ' What is to bo done ?' I gave him my gun, and fastening my Esquimaux coat properly, ran to meet thom. They did not allow themselves to bo intimidated. I fired my pistols in the air, and desired them to lay aside their weapons, but they only .shouted tho louder. I called to them again that wo were friends, had brought them presents, and intended them no harm. On hearing this they bocamo more quiet ; the captain camo up, and after many words and promises they agTced to lay down their weapons, keeping their knives, hov.-evcr, ready for conflict. I drew a lino in the snow over v.-hich neither party was to pass, but they soon became more friendly, and at last quite confiding, bringing forward their ^vivcs and children, and placing the inflmts in oTir arms. These Esquimaux trade with the 1 1 are Indian,?, whose language they under- :,tand; the Indians convey tho skins to Fovt (Jood Hope, on tho Mackenzie Kiver. After tho captain had satisfied himself by many questions that they knew nothing of Sir John Franklin's expedition, ho gave the Esquimaux Kcnualik letters for the Hudson's Bay station, and many j)resents for himself. " ^Vhile the captain was exploring the loca- lity, I conversed with the people, who listened to mo willingly, asked many (luestions, and -when their expressions were not intelli- giblo to mo, made use of signs. Of a Creator, or any Divine Being, they had no idea, and had apparently never thought that sun, moon, and stars must have been made by some super- natural power. They were therefore much astonished when I told them that a ^ .eat and good Spirit dwells abovo tho sun tind s ars, who can .SCO all that we do, and that this .Spirit made all things. All that I said was allowed to pass uncontradicted j only upon the subject of the stars, old Kcnnalik gave me this piece of information. 'Over our heads is a large blue chest, tho house of the sun. In the day-time, and in tho summer, tho sun is for a long time not in his house ; but when ho goes in it is dark, in tho house are many littlo holes through which tho sun can suo tho earth, and through which his light shines : these are the stars.' Of a future life these E.squi- maux have also a peculiar idea. There aro two lands, one good and beautiful, tho other bad. In tho forlner lives a good spirit, who Avatches the game, that it should not stray out of tho country. In the latter dwells an evil s]nrit, who is always bringing ills upon man- kind. When an Esquimaux dies who in his lifc-timo has fed and clothed widows and orphans, ho goes to the good land, where tho sun always shines, wheio there is neither rain, wind, nor ice, but alw^ays wann weather, and where there are countless herds of reindeer, seals, etc., which may be caught by the hands. But when any man dies who has not acted thus kindlj', he goes to the bad land, which is in eveiy respect the reverse of tho other. " VN'hilo 1 was still talking with these in- teresting people, the captain called me. I rose to depart, but Kennalik held mo back, and said I should remain here and tell him more ; I f-ihould live with h n. 1 told him I could not stay, I must go with the ship to seek some of our brothers in the ice. Thereupon he oifered me a sledge and dogs, that ' when the next moon became invisible,' and tho eea was frozen, I might liaA-el over the ice to my ship. I answered that by that time the ship would bo so far ofi" that I should be unable to find it. lie re]ieated his offer of the sledge, and added to it a tent. I was obliged to tell him decidedly that my ' angajTiga ' had called me, and I inusf obey and follow him. This, however, did not satisfy him ; he not only renewed his former oilers , but placed before mo his daughter, a A'ery good-looking damsel, about sixteen, with tho words, ' Takka unna ' — ' Take this.' " Tho captain now came to fetch me, and we were both taken by tho anns and thus con- ducted to our boat, where wo divided the presents. I bestowed double gifts upon my friend Kennalik and his daughter, giving the latter some needles, which aro greatly valued. T» escape further importunity we put ofi", leaving the poor people standing on the beach and shouting many tarcwells after us. "'i-""- h2 Their 100 NOTES FROM AN ARCTIC DIARY. langtmgo difforH a little from that of the other Esquimaux on this coast ; it was at first diffloult to understand thom, although thoy undor«tood me quit© well. Several had brcvn hair and blue eyes, whereas the Esquimaux generally have black hair and brown oyoa. Their gar- ments, skilfully made of the finest skins, are very becoming to these small but well-formed people. " Or the following day, fifteen inen in kayaks and two other boats filled with inen and women, came oif to the ship. Some of these had made our acquaintance yesterday, and were therefore the more confiding. Towards mo thoy were especially friendly, brought me several trifling articles as presents, and i'ol- lowed me even into my cabin. One of them told us that the day before yesterday strangers came here in two boats, and lived in a tent on land, also that thoy shot a white bear on the ice. He described minutely the appear- ance of the people in their different clothing, the boats with their masts, and even related how the chief of the party, a stout man, con- stantly walked up and down on the strand, always walking just twenty paces and then turning round again. The captain rewarded this man for his story, which was quite correct, with the exception iJiat ' the day before yester- day * was more than two years ago, at which time Dr. Richardson conducted a boat expe- dition from the Mackenzie to the Coppermine River." Captain M'Cluro intended continuing his course in the direction of Dolphin and Union Straits ; hut after passing Cape I'arry, the coast was found so blockaded with drift ice that this was impossible. He therefore steered in a northerly direction, and on the 6th of September land was seen to the north — a high rocky coast. Tlie next day a place was found suitable for landing, and the newly discovered country was duly taken possession of in tho name of Queen Victoria. It was named by tho captain Baring Land ; and the southern point, a castellated promontory a thousand feet high, Lord Nelson's Head. The ice would not admit of sailiLg along tho western shore of this land. Sailing eastwards, with a fair wind, for two days, tho ' Investigator ' entered what appeared to be a deep gulf. Tho ice now became heavier and the navigation more perilous. There was a strong cur/ent, which, in conjunction with the wind and tide, threw the heavy masses of ice into violent commotion. With intervals of calm, this continued many days, but our space will only admit tho account of the last day. " September 26th. — Yesterday we had but a few hours' rest ; a strong wind drove the ship, together with the ice, towards a perpendicular cliff a hundred and twenty feet high. We were carried within fifty feet of this dangerous cliff, the water being sixt; fivo fathoms deep. The past night was the rao... terrible wo have yet ston. It is impossible for me to describe those fearful hours ; but all my life 1 shall re- member them, and the remembrance will ever excite in n.y mind gratitude to the Lord, who saved us in such a wonderful manner from im- pending death. Seventeer liours we stood on de(;k, looking upon each moment as the last of our lives. Masses of ice, each three or four times as large as tho ship, j)ilod on one another, wore driven about, and then ruKhed against each other with a cruish like thunder. In tho midst of this wild uproar, the ship was thrown now on one side, now on tho other, or lifted out of the water, and then, when the ice crashed, plunged a<^ain into the raging Hca. The seams parted and the caulking fell out, and oven some of tho casks in the hold burst. If wo could have escaped to land, no ono would have re- mained on board ; but this was utterly impos- sible, either in a boat or on foot. When the danger was greatest; when the ship, thrown on her side, was on tho point of being crushed by a towering mass of ice, which would have buried in a moment seventy-six human beings ; then spake the Most Merciful — ' Thus far, and no farther.' The ice stood perfectly still ! We looked at one another, astonished at this sudden change, scarcely daring to believe it, and expecting every moment a renewal of tho fearful uproar. But the Lord had commanded tho waves and tho ice, and there was a great calm. A strong watch remained on deck ; the others, exhausted and wet through, letircd to rest." TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. VII. THE VALLEY OF ESHCOL. THE FERTILllT OF THE VALE OF ESIICOL — ITS CAUSES — VINEYARDS AND OLIVE GARDENS — THE WIIITE-THORN IN BLOOM— THE " FICNCED CITIES " OF JUDAH, MAON, CAU- MEL, ZIPH — NAF.AL, AlilGAIL, ANT) DAVID — DAVID'S WAN- DERINGS AND god's PROTECTION — SAUL'S PURSUIT OF DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPII — DAVID AND JONA- THAN. The quarantine doctor at Hebron was a Frank in the Turkish service ; and by the prospect of a small fee, he was induced to promise that on the morning preceding that on which we were to be liberated he would come and inspect us all, and if he could then conscientiously declare that we were free from plague and other such-like disorders, we might the same day explore tho countrj' about Hebron nnder the charge of a guardian. The doctor was behind his time, so that the afternoon was advanced I TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. 101 5I1. Wo angevous us ileop. wo havo describu hhall re- ivill ever ord, who from im- stood on be laist of ) or four another, J against In the is thrown or lifted > crashed, 'he scams A'en some wo conkl havo re- ly impos- When the ), thrown g cnished 3uld have n beings ; 18 far, and itly still! 3d at this )olievo it, val of the )mmauded IS a great ieck ; the retired to iND. TS CAUSES — TE-THOr.N IX MAOM, CAU- )AVID'S WAK- PURSDIT OF D AND JONA- is a Frank jrospect of se that on h we were inspect us sly declare and other same day nndcr the vas behind i advanced ■0 7! before wo could wander forth inio the valley above Hebron, which is coiisidt-rcd by most iinthorilicH to bo the valley of Kslicol wlience iho spies cut "one cluster of gropes, and bare it l)etwecn two upon a staff, and biought of the pomegranates and of tho figs," and carriw,d them to all Israel at Kadesh, as evidence of the exuberant fruitfulncss of tlio land that " surely flowed with milk and honey." Starting so late, wo could not go far. Tho day was cold and cheerless ; heavy clouds sailed rapidly overhead, now and then pierced by a gleam of sunshine, whilst ragged streamers of mist flow across tho hill-tops. The whole oflect produced appeared more appropriate to Scottish highlands than to a landscape almost on tho border of Arabia. This bitter, gloomy weather seemed strange, but it was not unsuited to the local itj', for wo were really in a moun- tain land. Wo had boon constantly rising over since we left tho Arabah, and Hebron itself is tho town of highest elevation in all S^'ria, standing two thousand eight hundred feet above the sea, so that truly Jacob and his sons ■ wont down into Egypt." This con- siderable elevation, this variable climate, caused tho fertility which prompted Caleb to ask for tho region round Hebron as his portion of the promised land, and which mado that district so rich a reward. It is tho mists, the moisture, and the cooler air of a more noiihern clime, conjoined v/ith the fervid heat of the sun of a Syrian summer, that have mado Eshcol's valley so celebrated. These same causes still work out similar results, and the vines of Eshcol's vale still bear splendid grapes, the largest and best in all the country round ; figs and pomegranates burden the trees on the terraced mountain- sides, whose groves likewise enrich her with " oil olive," and the fields wave with com. This was the first place we had seen in all the border-land of tho south, in which we could appreciate tho longing of Abraliam's children for the land God had promised them. Here, indeed, we had a fair example of that country which was *' a land of com and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and honey," and of which wo had read so much. Tho vines in the vicinity of Hebron are sometimes enclosed in vineyards surrounded by stone walls, and overlooked by " the tower of the watchman ;" sometimes they run along ten-aces which may have existed from the early days of Israel's possession, and here and there is built a hut for the guards or vine-dreseers — " a oottage in a vineyard." In these towers and huts, and also in tents, the families of Hebron are crowded in time of vintage, which is a festival season for the whole population, and the town is left desei-ted. Tho produce of tho vineyards is sent all over Palestine. Tho proprietors, being chiefly Mahometans, make no wine or raki, but a little is mado by tho Jews, though not in sufficient quantities for exportation. Whilst in tho lazaretto, wo pro- cured some wine of two kinds grown hero, both of them sweet, andfound them excellent. Tho best grapes aro mado into raisins ; the remainder are trodden out in tho winepress, and their juico is boiled down to a syrup, which resembles treacle, but has a plcasanter taste. This syrup is called "dibs," a Hebrew word signifying "honey" and also "symp of grapes," and wherever in Palestine there is "a land of vineyards " this syrup is commonly oaten with bread. Tho valleys hereabouts are all well cultivated, and the hills, wherever they are terraced, well repay tho toil expended upon them. Where they are left to nature, loose rocks and scanty grass aro scattered over them. During our ramble in Eshcol's valley, wo mot with one tree which forcibly and instan- taneously bore us back in spirit to our own dear land, so worthy in these days to bear tho name so often given to Palestine — "tho land of the Biblo." That tree was an ancient whitethorn, snowy with luxuriant blossom — tho sweet fresh " may " of tho springtide at home — tho pride of our hedgerows — the " may" that, to our sore disappointment and discomfiture in childhood's years, so seldom kept the promise we thought she gave, to inaugurate the spring by her pure open flowers on May's first day. Ilero, amidst Abraham's pasturage and on Caleb's estate, the tree was in full bloom before April was nearly ended. Wo went up to some considerable ruins on ono of the western hills, among which was a long vaulted chamber, some wells, remains of columns, walls, etc. ; but we could find out nothing about their history ; our guide.«t called them " the convent." We sketched tho valley of Eshcol looking about north-west from Hebron, and just in- cluded in our view a straggling suburb nomi- nally belonging to Hebron, but quite separated from it bj' fields and gardens. Tho evening was very oold, and the air was so damp that it saturated oar drawing-paper, and prevented its lying flat -, and we had only just completed our sketch, when tho sun went down and drove us back to our iemporary home. We must now return, as we promised to do, to the south country, and continue our notice of the fenced cities of Judah, near which we passed on our road to Hebron. In our next chapter we shall say something about Hebron itself, and then pursue our journey onwards. We have already made mention of Beersheba ~ilnrT" 109 TKAVKLS IN THE HOLY LAND. and Moluiliih : it was uflor leaving the latter place— t ho liiodom Kl MUh — that ruins and hill.s, many of thorn Btill bearing; thoir old liistoric names exactly, and others prcsoninj; with Homo «lij:;lit modification tlio nomonclahiio of Joshua's days, began to crowd upon uh, Atlir, Auub, Main, Kurmel, Vutia, Zif, lijhuwoikoh, names now in u.so fur lucalitics wo paused, Kpcak to us of Yattir, Anab, Maon, m"n;;; tho Nabals of our dispensation. Wo must hero mention, to prevent confiisiuu of ideas, that this " (.'armel,'" where Nabal iiad his posBcssions, ra far distant from iMoiint Carmel on tho I'hconician coast, the .scene of Elijah's sacrifice. Tho ruins of Carmel in .Indah are extensive, and some of them very ancient. Tho castle, from tho stylo of its masoniy, is probably of tho time of Herod. Among tho ruins aro tho remains of chiireiies. showing that Carmel had at one time a largo Chri.stian populati(m. It is all de.scii now. About an hour and a lialf from Carmel is thi' little hill "Tell Zif," elo.-ic to whieliare I lie ruins of Ziph, whose people on two ooeasious betrayed David's hiding-placo to Saul. On the lirst occasion David was " in a mountain in tho wilderness of Ziph," and thoiii^h "Saul .-oiij^ht him every day," yet " God delivered him not into his hantl ;" and hero it was that Jona- than gave another proof of his stnmg, temler, and life-long affection for the sou of .Jcsse, for ho "went to David into tho Avood and strengthened his hand in God." In all history, sacred and profane, thero is no more touching example of true, imselfish, unwavering devotion of man to man than that of Jonathan for David. Jonathan knew that his friend would deprive him of the throne to which ho might, but for him, succeed ; but no thought of self ever entered his mind. He knew that it was the will of Jehovah that David should rule Israel, and ho bowed liis heart without a murmur to that Almighty will, and rejoiced in tho thought that his friend would be his king. David now wandered into tho wilderness of Maon for a tiaie, and after that the Ziphitcs again betrayed his haunts to Saul, who sought him in tho wildieniess of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel. To no pui-pose, for the Lord n-atched over David, who penetrated Saul's cai-ip at night, and took the spear and cruse of water from beside the bolster of the sleeping king. God hero specially interposed in David's behalf, for "no man saw it nor knew it, neither awaked, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them." David spared his enemy when in lii.-i power, and God preserved him from all danger. T Pi 1 .1 mk mi 11; f I ; 'i!'f lift. V. I'll. 1! i I Ml v: ■ .:,, ,1 iiil ':v.l! ll'L,! 1,1:'' ill 'j;| 'liV:!'!!! I'ili;! mmvn. illi:' ffiHl'''iii 1: . ■ i;.iM:!:y I ':H?^ li If. II ] i iiiillihil! Ill fiiS'::'^'^'^ fiii'i'!'; I ii.;!'i|i *'!; : III l.lil^l: mm I V' I'.-, .|iii' '1 ■ ' \'A: 1 i.i'i i'i::i; !''^:'i-;l:l'it.:::'!iii;ii:M^,|i III! li ilil . ' ; hi.lll- 1|! 'iJHill': .ill I P'i' *'il' ■'■''! illllllllll '"i !'il!!illlli!|i 1 ■I J| l,,!llii:''^J' '^'-''ll'llf ''-ifi^i'i' Sii« ■I T THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEAIiT. lO.*) A o o » o '.I w THH rULriT IN THE !• AMILY. THK DECKITFULNESS OF THK IIKAVT. 'I'lic hoart Is ilcocitfiil above oU things."— i/cr. xvli. 9. :-^ HEEE is V" meaning of the expression in this 'y'' place, and not towards others. Now this deceitfulness of the heart, wlioreh}^ it is exceedingly advantaged in its harbouring of sin, lies chiefly in these two things. First, that it abounds in contradictions, so that it is not to be found and dealt withal ac- cording to any constant rule and way of pro- cedure. There are some men that have much of this from their natural constitution, or from other causes in their conversation. They seem to be made np of contradictions ; sometimes to be very wise in their affairs, sometimes very foolish ; very open, and very reserved ; very tacile, and very obstinate ; very easy to be en- treated, and very revengeful, all in a remark- able height. This is generally accounted a bad character, and is seldom ft>und but when it proceeds from some notable predominant lust. But in general, in respect of moral good or evil, duty or sin, it is so with tho heart of every man ; flaming hot, and key cold ; weak, and yet stubborn ; obstinate and facile. The frame of the heart is ready to contradict itself every moment. Kow you would think you had it all for such a frame, such a way ; anon it is quite ' therwiso ; so that nemo know what to expect fiom it. The rise of this is the disorder that is brought upon all its faculties by .sin. (iod created tlu.m all in a perfect harmony and nnion. The mind and reason were in perfect subjection iind subordination to God and his will ; tlio will answered, in its choice of good, the discovery made of it by tlie mind ; the atl'ootions constantly and evenly followed the understanding and will. Tho mind's subjection to God was the spring of the orderly and liannonious nioti lie that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." (I'rov. xxviii. 20.) Doth thy heart prnmisofair? rest not on it, but say to tho Lord Christ, " Lord, do thou undertake for mo." Doth tho sun shine fair in tho morning ? reckon not therefore on a fine day ; the clouds may ariso and fall, though the morning give a fair appearance of serenity aiul peace ; tur- bulent affections may arise and cloud the soul with sin and darkness. Commit, then, the whole matter, with all care and diligence, unto Him who can search the heart to the uttermost, and knows how to prevent all its treacheries and deceits. In tho thint'P before mentioned lies our duty, btit here lies our safety. There is no treacherotis corner in our hearts, bttt ho can searcli il to tho uttermost; there is no deceit in Iheni, but ho can disappoint it. This course David takes (Psa. cxxxix.) ; after he had set forth tho om- nipresence of God, and his tmniRcienco (Psa, cxxxix. 8, 9, 10), he makes improvement of it (ver. 23) : "Search me, O Lord, and try mo." As if ho had said, " It ia but a little that 1 knovv' of my deceitful heart, only I would be sincere, I would not have reserves for sin retained therein ; wherefore do thou, who art j.resent with my heart, who knowest my thoughts long before, undertake this work, perforui it thoroughly, for thou alone art able so to do." jOr. Julia Owen. THE SISTEES. A T R U E X A R RATI V K. CIUU'TER II. " I AM so glad you are come, dear Charles," said Kate, one evening, after waiting tea to an un- usually lato hour ; " I began to fear something strange must have happened to detain you s(^ long ; but now you are here, wo will have tea, and you shall tell mo what has made you look so tired." Dear, loving Kate soon put his feet into the well-warmed slippers, and held ready the loose coat in which ho was accustomed to lounge in his luxurious easy-chair; and after the tray was removed, she took her usual seat on a low stool at his feet, and waited with patient child- like gentleness to hear- tho truant's account of the day. " You know, my little wife, how often Ed- ward Walters has asked me to his rooms, and, since tho night I took leave of all my baclielor friends, how steadily I have refused cverj- invitation, both from him and others. 'Well, just as I was leaving my office, he came and pleaded so irresistibly, that at last I promised to spend to-morrow evening with him. I shall bo sorry to leave you alone, but will return quite early." Poor Kate felt tho first pang of wedded life then, for she knew this man's character was lightly spoken of; yet she would not. grieve her husband by referring to what she thought and hoped might be mv,re idle report. But as evening after evening now began to bo passed away from home by her husband, whi" she was left to weep in secret over hopes cit.ched and prospects blighted, Kate felt that she must make some ellbrt to withdraw her husband from the evil influences by which he was en- tangled. Little did she dream that this was but the renewal of the life he had led before she I THE SISTElfS. 107 became liis wilV', iuul iliat Ibu few months of quiet, life ho hud passed witVi her li;ul been irksome beyond longer endnrunce. But so it was ; !vnd Kate soon ibtind that though every night'.s cruel neglect was for a time followed by a repentant morning, and promises that all should bo given up f groat a power over him. He bartered away iiis present liappiness and eternal joy for the short-lived and falsely called pleasures of the prodigal, and seemed to forget that misoiy, woe, md death were tho constant attendants on such a life of sin. What could Kato do? ^\ hither could she go for comfort and advice ? Sho was unwilling that any bhould know how Ioav her still dear though degiaded husband had fallen. l?he Iherefore turned to the " Strong" for help, and cried in tho desolate sorrow and anguish of her mind, " When my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the Rock that is higher than I." In the midst of these sad scenes were the first few years of the lililo Annio passed. What Avondcr if her yormg mind wcro prema- turely tinged with care ! for to tier were almost unknown tho joys of childhood. It is at home that oven tho youngest look for endearing, happy hours, and Kate had now so fully realized her wretched and forlorn position that she was often too bowed by grief to vv-ear a cheerful aspect even before her child. In A'cry truth might it be said thai he " wasted his substance in riotous living," so that, in addi- tion to her other trials, the broken-hearted wife saw poverty becoming every day more appa- rent. She spoke to her husband on the subject of his pecuniary aflairs, and heard, not with surprise, that they must leave their present home, and seek one more suited to their grcatlj; reduced means. Even now could Kato have been happy in poverty and exile, if her still beloved husband were Avhat her true woman's heart would have him to be. But alas ! her cup wsis not yet full ; her trials were not yet ended. One morning, whilst sho Avas trying to arrange her future plans, Ellen surprised her in tears. She had Icmg noticed the altered looks of the sufferer, antt from the rumours which had, reached her 108 STORM-WINDS of Charles' dissipated life, slio knew too well the cause ; but aifection is ever delicate,^ and though often tempted to question her sister, she resolved to wait, feeling sure that the would know all when the right time arrived. Little did she imagine the emban-assed circum- stances if the Mortimers, or the great cause existing for grief to Kate, who now, in the bitterness of her anguish and depth of her despair, confided her wrongs and sufferings to the astonished and indignant Ellen. Harry at , onco came forward with willing heart to help, | not the destroyer, but his gentle, uncomplain- | ing wife and child. Nothing could be saved ; from the wreck ; and a quiet, humble lodging ; received one who had begun life with bright j and happy prospects. I It was proposed that Annie should become a ' member of her aunt's family for a time, and : join her cousin Hugh in his studies; but neither she or her mother could bear the j thought of separation ; their very lives were entwined, and it was beautiful to see the devo- tion of the child and the intense love of the mother. And so Kate and her darling Annie remained together, whilst ho, the cause of all their sorrow, often absented himself for weeks, and then only returned to leave them poorer than before. At length he left them, and re- turned no more. Weeks and months passed away, and still he came not. The deserted wife yearned and longed for his coming ; she could not give up the husband of her youth; and it took all Annie's lovo and efforts to keep her from sinking altogether under this final blow. Well was it for her that she had foimd a sure refuge in this her time of greatest need. STORM-W^NDS. " When were the winds Lot slip with such ii warrant to destroy ? When did the waves so haughtily o'erleap Their ancient barriers, deluging the day ?" CowPEii wrote these lines in his " Task" in al- lusion to the unusual natural phenomena which marked one of the years of his troubled life. They may as truly bo applied to tko j'ear 1860, with a few preceding months, for living experience has known no similar interval, during which there has been such a succes- sion of furious stonns, with heavy rains, and a generally disturbed condition of the atmo- sphere. There is no peculiarity in the mere occurrence of a tempest. Our fathers and their grandsiros were familiar with it ; and occa- sionally with even more teiriblo displays of its power than we have ever witnesses. But the lessons of such occurrences are for all times. Whatever may be the aspect of external nature to us, it is our comfort to know that God's government of it is ever a reality, as much so when tlie elements are in fearful agitation as when they are profoundly calm ; while all in- animate agents in their various operations do his bidding, equally, though unconsciously, with the vast joyous host of heaven's intelli- gences : — " Tlie winds are his messengers ; His servants, flames of fire." However suddenly disastrous to life and pro- perty may be the wild uproar of the tempest, we are reminded by it *of being under the mighty hand of God, and are stirred up to holy conversation and godliness before him. •' The wind blowoth where it listeth." It is completely independent of the will of man, both as to its direction and its force. " Thou hearest the sound thereof." It is a whisper, a murmur, a sob, or, anon, almost a laugh in the gentle breeze — a wild ciy in the fast- flying gale — an awful roar in the tremendous hurricane. But no man can tell "whence it Cometh and whither it goeth." The quarter, indeed, from which it sweeps, and to which it speeds, is readily ascertained ; but the stail- ing-point of the current is beyond our find- ing out, as well as the terminus of the journey. Who can say where its first move- ment began, and where it will end ? But while obscurity rests upon aerial agitations in matters of detail, it is sufficiently clear that they are primarily occasioned by changes in the temperature of a portion of the air, or in the quantity of water which it holds in a state of vapour. In either of these cases, a tempo- rary destruction of the equilibrium of the atmosphere is produced, and its particles are set in motion to restore the balance. The pro- cess of restoration will be conducted with more or less vigour according to the extent and suddenness of the derangement; and damage to both person and property may bo incident to it. But this is only very occasional and local, while there is a resulting benefit which is constant and general. The winds display an endless variety in their velocity and power. There is the zephyr which scarcely wrinkles the lake, stirs the leaves, or fans the frame ; and tho mighty blast which dismantles the forest of its branches, tears up its trees by tho roots, makes haVoc of tho handiwork of man, and far outstrips the swiftest locomotive in its speed. The storm winds, under the names of tornadoes, typhoons, and hurricanes, are most common and violent within the tropics, where they arc often con- fined to comparatively narrow limits. But sometimes they pass to extra-tropical latitudes, reach our wn islands, and sweep over wide ■ STORM-WINDS. 109 4 «■> areas of the northern heniisphore. It was noticed by the enemies of Cromwell, that at the time of his death, the wnds went foi-th raving and howling throngh the land ; but the same tempest dashed the vepsels of the Baltic Hcaracn on the strand, buried Venetian argosies in the Adriatic, shivered the pines of Korway, and swept before it the cypresses of the Bos- pliorus. But what is known in oiir records as the " Great Storm " occun-ed in the early part of the reign of Queen Anne, on the night of the 2(ith and the morning of the 27th of IS ovember, 1703, and is referred to by almost all writers of the period. Under that date, Dr. Isaac Watts wrote the entry in some private memoranda, "Friday night and Saturday morning, the great and dreadful storm." It was terribly destiuc- tive both by land and sea ; and has never since been equalled in violence. During the preceding months of the year, great rains fell in the south of England and the north of France. On the day before the tem- pest, the wind rose high in the afternoon ; in the evening there was lightning ; and between nine and ten o'clock at night, there was a severe but short squall, with heavy showers. The next morning, Friday, the weather was tem- pestuous, 3'et not so as to give rise to appre- hensions of danger, though liad the indications of the barometer been understood and consnlted as at present, the fall of tho mercury would, doubtless, have told a talo of coming peril. The wind blew high all day, increased towards night, and became a perfect tempest about ten o'clock. Still most families in London retired to bed, though few were so hardy as to remain there past midnight. The roar of the elements, the unroofing of houses, the fall of chimneys, and the cries of the injured, combined to fomi a scene of the greatest tenor, appalling to tho stoutest hearts. Many thought that the end of the world was come. The cebrated De Foe was in a substantial brick house in the suburbs. A stack of chimneys falling, which belonged to the next dwelling, gave the house such a shock that he fancied it was coming down upon tho heads of its inmates. Opening a door to escape into the garden, the danger of doing .so was no apparent, that they all deemed it best to leave themselves quietly to the disposal of Almighty Providence, and expect a grave in the ruins of the building, rather than court almost certain destruction by venturing into the open air. De Foe remarks, in a commemorative poem : — " I felt tbo mighty shock, and saw 'ho night, Wlieii guilt look'd pale, and own'd tlio fright ; And every time the raging clement Shook liondon's lofty towers, at every rent Tho falling timbers gave, they cried ' Repent.' I saw, whei^all tho stormy crew, Newly pomniission'd from on high, Newly instructed what to do. In lowering cloudy troops drew nigh ; They hover'd o'er tlio guilty land, As if they had been backward to obey ; As if thoy wonder'd at tho sad command, And pitied those they should destroy. But lieaven, that long had gentler methods tried, And saw tiioso gentler methods all deiied. Had now resolved to bo obeyed : Almiglity power upon the whirlwind rode, And every blast proclaim'd aloud. There is, there is, there is a God." Between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday morning the mercury began to rise swftly, and tho hurricane slowly abated, but the wind con- tinued to blow with the force of a strong gale, and nearly a week elapsed before the atmo- sphere was lulled to rest. " Thus ended," says one, "tho greatest and tho longest stonu that ever tho world saw." The country north of tho Tweed was not affected by this tempest. It swept up from tho south-west, over tlie district between the Trent in England and the Loire in France, where dwellings unroofed, steoplos blown down, treca prostrate, stacks of com scattered abroad, and vessels wrecked on tho coast, proclaimed its fury. It is supposed that upwards of six thou- sand sailors found a watery grave on that fear- ful night, and that a total of eight thousand persons perished. The damage to propei-ty wad estimated at more than four millions ster- litig. In tho metropolis, the loss exceeded that occasioned >)y the gi-eat fire ; and for msuiy days, the city seemed a.s if it had been exposed for a long period to the cannon of a besieging army. " Tho wind," says Oldmixon, " blew west-south-west, and gnmibled like thiiRflcr, accompanied Avith fla.shes of lightning. It threw down several battlements and stacks of- chimneys at St. James's Palace ; tore to pieces tall trees in the Park, and killed a servant in the house. Tho guard house at Whitehall was much damaged, as was the banquetting-house. A great deal of lead was blown oiT Westminster Abbey, and most of the lead on churches and houses was either rolled up in sheets or loosened. Tho pious and learned prelate. Dr. Richard Kidder, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and his lady, were killed by the fall of part of the old episcopal palace at Wells. The Bishop of London's sister, Lady Penelope Nicholas, was killed in tho same manner at Horsely, in Sussex, and Sir John Nicholas, her husband, was grievously hurt." In a dismal enumeration of the items of the calamity, mention is made of 800 houses, 400 windmills, and 250,000 timber trees thrown down ; 100 churches unroofed, 300 merchant- men and 12 ships of the line lost upon the coast ; 900 wherries and barges destroyed on w 110 STOK^VI-WINDS. 'V>'--. ^•■■i^ !%-« ^:^^^ the Thames, and 15,000 shecji, Leisides other cattle, di'OAvnod by tho overiiowing of the Seveni. Jioar-Adrairal Beaimiont perished witli his crew on tho Goodwin Sands ; and Mr. Winstauley, the engineer of tho iirstEddystono Lighthouse, was swept awa}' Avith the struc- ture ho had reared. Ho had expressed tho ut- most confidence in its stability, and was in tho buihliug superintending repairs when the stt)rm arose. Tlie next morning not a vostige of the habilation on the I'ock was to bo neon from the shore. It was afterwards found, that the waves had so completely torn Tip the struc- ture from tho very foundation, and carried it aAvay, tliat not u beam, stone, or iron-bar remained. The only article left was a piece of chain, wedged in a cleft, which was cut out about half a century aftem^ai'ds. Faintly to ill-strate the impetuosity of the wind, it may be stated that a vessel laden with tin bioko from her moorings ofi' Falmouth, and was driven to the Islo of \Vight at tho rate of more than thirty miles an hour. This dreadful visitation silenced for a time the clamour of political faclions, sjiocially loud and rancoroTis at that period, and brought to the remembrance of a godless generation llim whf> sendeth forth the stormy Avind to fulfil his Avord. Tho queen appointed a national fast, stating in tho royal proclamation relative to the event, that " avo most humbly acknoAv- ledgo it to bo a token of the divine displeasure ; and that it Avas of the infinite mercy of God that Ave and our people Avero not thereby wLolly desti'oyed." Many persons had cause to regard that night of terror as ono to be remembered Avith gratitude, OAvingto the almost miraculous manner in Avhich tlioy Avere pre- served from death or injury. One of these, Mr. John Taylor, a bookseller in Paternoster Ttow, Avas so affected bj' the interposition of Divine I'rovidence on his behalf, that he regularly devoted the anniversary of tho event to thanksgiA'ing and prayer, with some friends like-minded. They met at his usual place cf worship, the Baptist Chapel, Little Wild Street, Avhcn a sermon Avas generally preached com- memorativo of God's goodness in preserving the AV()i-Khi]>}K'rH at a time Avhcn so many perished. This good man at his death be- (pieathed a sum of money to trustees, Avith directions to employ the interest in securing the continued remembrance of an cA'ont in Avhich judgment and mercy were so remarkably displayed. The will of the testator has been duly executed : ■^nd last iS'overaber, the one -eighth annual commemora- .Id. jOnt «centur> , a hun icano hundred and ' tion serA'ico av; Down to tht was generally deemed to be simply a gale of Avind pursuing, Avith innuonso velocity, a rec- tilinear course. But it is noAv known that thewc storms are real Avhirhvinds, or huge eddies in the atmosphere, having two motions, a progressive and a rotaiy, both i'ollowing certain fi.\ed laAvs. Originating generally Avithin the tropics, they travel from thence at a comparatively slow rate toAvards tho poles, uorth-easterly in the uorthein hemi- s]ihere, and south-easterly'- in tho soitthem. Thus tho storm of 1 703 came across tho Atlan- tic from the tropical regions of America, and passed over Britain, France, Holland, GcrmaTiy, (Sweden, liussia, and northern Asia, to the polar ocean. But if the progressive mot ion is a grand slow march, the rotary, or the Avhirl of the air at the outer circle, has an intense velocity, Avhile the interior space, or A'ortcx, is the scene of gusts and lulls. In the northern hemisphere, the Avhirl of the wind is in a direc- tion againbt the hands of a Avatch, and with them in tho southern ; and of course on opposite sides of tho same Avhirl-storm, the wind bloAvs in precisely opposite directions. Tho particular cause of these ]ieculiar commotions ii\ tho atmosphere remains in obscurity; but they may bo due in part to tho same law under Avhich eddies or Avhirlpools are formed in Avater, by two currents being obliquely impelled against each other. The great hurricane may thus correspond in principle to tho small local whirhvind, so commonly seen in tho summer season, carrying upwards and along with it the dust and loose grass in spiral columus, exhibiting a progressive and rotary motion. The general conclusions stated have been well established by the independent observa- tions and comparisons of highly-gifted men; and Ave ought to be thankful to the Author of all good for disposing their minds to the in- quiry. By taking adA- atago of tho law of storms, a ship may san out of a huiTicane, instead of drifting along Avith it to be fatally entangled. It is also a most happy circum- stance that, like " coming events" Avhich " cast their shadows before," those aAvful stonns are incccded by signs indicating that " Deep in ft cloudy spoek Compressed, the iiiiglity tempest brooding dwells." Among tho surest signs are the sinking of the barometric columns, and the temperature be- coming Avaraier or colder than usual at the season. Sucli indications are distinctly shoAvn many hours, if not two or more days, before a dangerous tempest. With warnings of this Icind proA'identially giA'en, the calamities noAV endured by our fishenaeu and coasters might in many instances be avoided, if good baro- meters Avere generally available for their use. But those who are the most exposed to peril B jiw »■' ■»" STOini-WIXLS. niiii' arc either too poor, or ill-informed, 1o provide Buch ponnaiicnt iiistrnmf.'nts of iii.stniction for themselves, lleiico it is .satisfaotory to find that the Xulional Life-Boat Jn.stitutiou pro- poses ti) place them at its own fstations, wher- over they are likely to he of most service ; and to instruct iip;euts properly in reading their iuJi- (•ations, so that they may act as so many storm- warneis in tlie towns or villages; in wliich they reside. Such a proposal Avill liave the wamiesl eympatliy of the Christian ])hilanthi-opist.* It is a time of fear and peril to man and Least when the txjmpest developes its giant strength, as in intcr-tropieal regions. Few scenes in the varied panorama of natnic iiro more awful than tho appeal then made to the senses of sight and hearing, by the dense black masses of ch:)ud that roll in wild confusion through tho air, the tumultuous aspect of the ocean, tho agitation of tho wuods, and the voice of tho wind, varying from the picreingly-.'hi ill cry to tho deafening roar, and occasionally combining eveiy kind of intonation in the sound. But it is unquestionable that neither breeze, nor gale, nor storm, could be dispensed ■with in tho economy of nature, for the various forms of life -which the common air sustains are preserved in vigour by that conflict of the elements which occasionally to some involves disaster. A variety of causes in operation on tho surface of the globe, and in its interior, concur to derange that constitution of the atmoi phcre ■which is alone salubrious, and would con- •vert tho medium of life and health into a fruit- ful source of fever, pestilence, and death were it not for an antagonistic influence in constiiut action. Tho vitiated air (carbonic acid gas) which is thrown oil' as deadly by animals, becomes the food of plants, which, under the influence of solar light, retain the carbon for their own growth, and restore tho oxygen to tho atmosphere. The exhalations from low swampy grounds aro a further cause of deterio- ration. But the atmospheric cuiTCuts separato and disperse the poisonous ingredients, render them innocuous by bringing them into new combinations, and thus keej) up that due pro- portion between the component parts of tlie atmosplun-e upon which its life-conserving pro- } lerty depends. The ordinary play of the winds, iu tho breeze and in the gale, has been or- dained to accomjilish this benign purjiose, and ovou the dread tornado becomes a messenger of life nud health to the regions over Avhich in brief violence it has passed. * It is esthnatcd tli.it a goo8 a habit. Tho same wasteful spirit which made you indill'erent about your toys, would cause you to waste things of jnoro importance when you are older. And just think, my dear, tho toys, you used so carelessly, l)Ccauso they were old, would have furnished amusement to a child poorer than yourself, in whose eyes they would have seemed porf(>c"t treasures. So you not only wasted something, but lost an opportunity of conferring happiness." Mary hung her head, and her blue eyes filled with tears when tliis view of tho case was presented by her Mother, who added, "Does my littlo girl now think" that Miss Ashton was right ?" "Oh, yes," half stifled bv a sob, was Mary's ropl.v. U.'^ peonlocoul.I.I,;/ • "lamina; but T ,i;i ... ," When I was at K ., '^ "''-»"' ashametl ^"'•"'^' I"' ty of^eJwfr"^ ^'''^ "lwaj-/;„S' """-^"t'^^' lookibrJr,!^''', ■'^'•'^^^ I'ttio peon . V ' '""''■ ^" i'tr "ml bestows a i^^^ joius n a ' l,,""'' ^^''i saw Bibles Pi,,,, i o "" ^aeh youn./,L Vi "■ '*P^'t«. WASTE iVOT, , "lam^Liof v. "-"'bavonmcleu ■"*•« pi«:. ?*"'*'"" "»' '» iff' ;:r c'r been /l„V *-'arnest, Ma "^o; its wJi t. *?°'^''^ ordirtyr- car.. ,.,„i ,.? ' ^ ^*^"s inucli stM,„i- ._•.,''.']• ^VJionlsaw ^^''«b wi^;™^£«t by it.;;;- «^'^- j^-^ l trust cess (JooB nnf I "'"'^ couvinco Im,. Vi / , '^^^ ^a?i' own wastefuJ. witJievl ,«"'l eitl.er of t os-e , • ^''''^"^''''ct' *--»"«l.t that «ii '?'• ^™«">bei Sli ? "^'*' "' a ' *T to cure luyself; by ; "".' 'I>^-tIt funo '//)/>, " f""*'' ^*' Arad . ., i"'' ^'*' «aHl mito tii ? "'.?P''oplf." 1 Sam vv /l">" ^^e^t «'"ony L iv,,, ,'-',"^'^'' <^». «l.T'art ;.f ' *'• Aml8auJ from amon "^brl'^^^^J-pt. «o h[ ;"' S ''^T^ ^>-''ea' *b() crinp]f. «'\vi ■ At Lystni, wJier,. Qf r. . *'-y jB'„p^\tl"'°^'"P'^'^^v vmfji^l^-;'"^ beale,] Lvcnonin Ti, ^ .^' voices, .s,v;„„ ■■:,""' ^'adi one J3- From wi,.f ' "'^^STIONS. t;vtnts occurreil on ^Iiss A«lify I'liild.scfturtd to o wo ilisiiiiss tim bill., •iijplo ul' (roiiiiinv ill ' King of Isiiici, \'vJn, isiiiess is biotlicr tci "lio lier Dihlf. and id with live Ijuilrv ';nt wlan tliey were »"tli(;r up tliu tia"- l"st ;" thus ti iicliin-' d bo of use. 'ild creatu us mueli Id not waste a trw. luuld caro for ij'u, ^iid now yon ])avo toJ'lio wJio gave it i£ himself 'King of l':STIONS. •>' uf tliu Keni tc-, tliu city of paJin- tlio wilderness of d ; and till V went XV. 0. "AiulSauI t yoii down from you with them • en f>f Israel whea Keiutes departed [Irpn of Israel did I'd IJaalim. And Ashtnroth." »ro3o, and her and followed Paul Jicalcd Paul Jia.ldone, "in' speecli of tlio likeness waslnuicdin And Jaeob !■ of Ifachers thou art de- two men by n." ^ deep sh:ep to " And when pou Abiam." lid the cruse to Israel ? •■are over tlie region initains oii i'111'.-ie.s for I'w Tostiv. nirred oa w,\ (I w % v^ h'"'h^f^.i, »j-*>.rM Tii!-: n ■M n IH SUNDAY AT HOME: HANANIAII, lis KAUiii riioFa::T, ii:;::.\ki:;o t.'ie yoke which svmuot.izku sdiueCtiox to baiivlon. THE LIFE A\D TDIES OF JEREMIAH THE 1>KUPHET. ' t'liAPTi::: v. # JL'I)GMK>a' UKGUX. " The I/)i\Vs voice crielli iintn the < ily, mul tlio man of wisilom hliiiU soc tliv name : Hear ye tUe lod, and wlio hath oppohitetl it." — Jlkdi VI. 'J. JEiroiACinx, or Jcconiali, succeederl liis father, fie reigned but tliroe month-s, and then was carried captive to Babyhm, as Jehoahaz had been to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar set up his nncle ^luttaniah in his stead, whose name ho changed to Zedekiah. There were thus two kings living at the same time, and the number No. 359.— I'DBMsiiF.n JIarch 14, I86i. of Israelites who were captives in Babylon was so great that there were almost two nation.s. Adversity did its work on the exiles, who were in many respects superior in character and conduct to their brethren at home. (Jer. xxiv.) Nor were these expatriated Israelites without the blessing of special revelations from heaven. Among them, also, a prophet was raised up. In the fifth year after Jehoiachin was carried captive, the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, (Ezek. i.,) a priest, as was Jeremiah, while he was dwelling by ihe river Chcbar. His thoughts were of his distant home, and of the tempi;; where he had been wont to minister, but in PiiK.'E OsF, rE>::v. 162 Liri: AXl) TL'\IES OF JEJiEMIAlI THE rEOPIIET. whose aacrod services ho might no hingcr assist, when a ghjrions vision ut" tlio Diviiio nifijosfj-, enthronod bctwci n the clu^inbim, was VI uchsufed to him, b7iii': far tVoiii tho Loid of tlio toniplo. To him, no loss fully than to Jeremiah, was lovcalcd tho appvoaohiiif; doKolati(m of tho city and dcstniction of tho tomplo ; and the utter corruption that drew down such heavy judi^- mcnls was shown to Irim in vifiion. (Ezek, viii.) ITo was transported to Jerusalem, and cou- ducted to iho house of (Jod. There, over tlio altar, an idol imago was set up. On tho walls (jf tho sanctuary Avero represented every form of creeping beasts and abominable things that the heathen worship, and sseventy elders of fsrael stood there, burning incense to false gods. Women were weeping for Tararanz, a fable of heathen mythology aunnally com- memcjrated by the Syrians and tho Greeks, in those gates which should have resounded with thanksgivings and psalms of praise. And within, between tho porch and the altar, in tho Kpaco reserved for the priests, the ministers of tho liOrd, were five-and -twenty men, " with their backs toward the temple and their faces towards the east, worshipping the snn." These wore tl things that Jeremiah was daily seeing and hearing ; well might rivers of waters con- tinually run down fmm hifi eyes. The doom of the nation was sealed, the will of God was proclaimed that for seventy yeare they should dwell in captivity. And the exertions of the prophets were directed to per- suade the ])eoplo to submit to that will, to reconcile the captives to remaining peaceable (jitizens of Babylon, and to dissoado those still in Judea from vain resistance to Nebnchadncz- zar. For a time Zedekiah oontinuod submis- sive to tho master to whom he owed liia king- dom. In tho fourth year of his reign he undertook tho journey to Babylon to do homage (Jcr. li. 59), accompanied by somo of liis nobles. One of these, named Seraiah, was brother to Jeremiah's friend Baruch. Their grandfather, IMaaseiah, had been governor of Jerusalem during the reign of Josiah (2Chron. xxxiv. 8), and both brothers were early com- panions of the prophet. ., To him Jeremiah en- trusted a manuscript, containing the i rediction of tho sudden and complete overthrow of tho magnificent city he was about to visit, which was afterwards placed as tho appropriate con- clusion of his prophecies when they were col- lected into one volume. On arriving at Baby- lon, Soraiah was first to read the book, and ihon binding to it a heavy stone to throw it into tho river Euphrates with these words: " Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise.'' Uow like were words and action to what St. John long aftorwarils saw and heard in vi.>-ion con- coiniiig another Babylon. "A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it iuto tho sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon bo thrown down, and shall ho found no more at all." (Ifov. xviii. 21.) Both among tho captives and in Jerusalem, false prophets wcro numerous, and their pro- dictions of peace and liberty deceived many. Jeremiah was going about with a yoke on his neck, similar to those he had sent to diiferonti monarchy as tho symbol of their subjection by Nebuchadnezzar. Ilananiah, ono of the im- postors, insidtingly laid hold of this yoke and broke it, (Jer. xxviii.) with the impious words, " Thus saith tho Lord, After this manner will I bleak tho yoke of tho king of Babylon from tho neck of all nations within the space of two full years." Jeremiah made no reply. It was not his word, but God's, that was contradicted, and to the personal insult ho meekly sub- mitted: "the prophet Jeremiah went his way." But soon ho was sent to Ilananiah with a message he dared not but deliver : " Thus saith the Lord, ITiou hast broken tho yokes of wood, but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. Tho Lord hath not sent thee, but tPiou makcst this people to trust in a lie : this year thou shalt die." \N'ithin two months Hananiah was no more. At Babylon two false prophets, Zedekiah and Ahab, disturbed tho minds of tho exiles by promising them a speedy return to their father- land. Very ditferent was the Divine message by Ezeldel (Ezek. xii. 13) : " This burden con- cei neth the prince that is in Jerusalem : 1 will bring him to Babylon, to the land of tho Chaldeans ; yet shall he not see it, though ho die there." Jeremiah was not unmindful of these distant countrymen. He addreu^ed to them a letter, entirely accordant with the lan- guage of Ezekiel. (E»ek. xxix.)' He ex- horted them to settle quietly where they were, to bo good and peaceable citizens of Babylon, for seventy years must pass ere their captivity would end. Far from their quickly returning to Jerusalem, king Zedekiah and the remnant of his people were to be brought to them. And as for the ' deceitful impostors, a terrible doom awaited them ; their very names were to become a proverb — " Ahab and Zedekiah, whom tlio king of Babylon roasted in the fire." Ezekiel and the faithful among whom he ministered must have been refreshed by this message from their distant home. But such was not the feeling of all to whom it came. The only reply mentioned to Jeremiah's letter was addressed by one Shemaiah to the priests at Jerusalem, advising them to reprove " Jore- V *l030MJt-«!»WWW<-..^ ASYLUM rOK FATIII Kf.ESS CIIII-DltEN. 163 miah of Anatliiitli" for tlio cuiiukcI ho had (jivon — advice the priests wero too ready to t'ulluw ; iur rebellion, not BubniiHsion, was tim popiilar fcolinj^. Yet a Holenin outh bound Iviiig Zedi.'kiuh (2 Chron. xxxvi. 13); ho was the sworn viKssal of Nebnciiadiuizzar. \\ hen ho revolted from his fillej^ianee, lio added bin ai^iiinst (iod to re')ellii)n against his hove- roign h)rd; (Kzek. xvii. 11-21) and punish- ment followed (luiekly and siiiely. '• In the ninth year" of Zedekinh's reipi (Ezek. xxiv. 1, 2), " in tho tenth month, in the tenth day of tho month, the word of the Lord eanie unto " Ezokiel, in Chaldea, " saying. Son of man, write thee tlio name of the day, oven of this same day ; tlie king of Babylon set himself against Jontsalein tliis same day." " In tho ninth year of Zedokiivh'i reign," suyii the eyewitness Jeremiah (Jer. xxxix. I ; lii. 4), •'in tho tenth month, in tho tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forta against it lonnd about." niis was tho beginning of calamities that ended only with the destruction of tho ])eoplo and tho overthrow of the nation. In this necessity (Jer. xxi.) Zcdekiah sent a nies.sa<;e to Jereniiah, begging him to inquire whether tho Lord would deal with them " ac- cording to his great mercy," and cause the king of liabylon to depart from thom. Tlio moHfage in reply was, that instead of fighting for his people, God would himself fight against them, and givo the city into tho hands of Xebuchadnezzar. And to tho people it was openly proclaimed by tho prophet: " llo that abidcth in the city .^hall die bj' tho sword, by llio famine, and by llie pestilence ; but ho that <;ooth out and falleth to tho Chaldeans that besiege you, ho shall live, and his life shall be given to him for a prey." Such language was most displeasing to the king, llo immediately confined Jeremiah in the pri.son attached to his own palace, to hinder him from spreading these doctrines among tlio people, "f him. as of Joseph when he was in prison, it might bo added, " but the Tiord was with him." came. letter priesta Jere- ASYLUM FOE FATHERLESS CHIL- DREN. The eyes of the numerous travellers on the Brighton and South-Eastern Railway must, by this time, have become familiar with the im- posing structure which stands on a gentle eminence on the east of tho line, about three miles south of Croydon. But, whilst the pleas- ing exterior attracts the observation and excites the interest of many passers-by, the moro in- teresting interior, with its ninuerous family ami busy occupations, is known nnly to those wjio have tin- upporlunity and tiio leisure to \ ihit it, and inslituti; a minute examination into its character and ojieralions. It is an asylum founded, us its reports indi- cate, " to board, clothe, nurse, and educate, f'ltherloss children from the birtli, till \he boy.s are fouiteeii, and the girls lifteen years SirOUI> IIII.1.. fiviit, a w^litaiy (jrpliau boy, tlics sou oi' a iiiinlstor of llio Koypcl, was received. I'etbre a ycuv had olupi-iod, twenty others wore oloeted, and placed out to iiur.se at Kiehinond. After thi.s, the pro- moters were encouraged to extend their opera- tions, by renting a commodiqus house at Stani- I'ord Hill, which, however, in about three yean;, became too wtrait for the increasing famih-, and an additional residence was taken : first, a .small one at yhacklewcU Green ; then a larger one, in its stead, at Stoke .Newington, vvliicli WU.S appropriated to the infants of the fiimily. (Itimately, a third hou.';o was secured '\ )i- the elder boy.s at Kingsland Green. Tbo means and '.•onsecpientlj'' the number, of orpli;i;i.'i couunuing to increase, it was then felt vo bo de>)irablo, both for the sake of economy, and for efficiency of management, to unite iinder one roof these di\'idcd members of the family; and the vigilant and energetic managers soon succocdod in securing, at a moderate cost, the pleasant and very salubrious site which the present edifice now graces. The foundation- stone was laid August the 5th, 1856, by the then lord mayor, Jlr. Alderman Saloiuon.s, and the building was formally opened by the Earl of Oarlislp, .July the lith, 1858. During the comparatively short period of the history of the charity, 432 children have been the recipients of its iaenefits, all of whom were bereaved of the support and care of a father, and veiy many of whom were likewise deprived of the fostering tenderness of a mother. At the present time /.ere are 190 in the institution. in the while accommodation is provided epncioui building for 100 more. The managiMs liavo taken great care that the sup)ily of food shall be plentitul, and the qualit\ good and wholesome, whilst the clothing is not only comfortable and neat, but entirely devoid (/f everything grotesque in shape, or iu any other way rendering the children consjiicuous as the objects of charity. The education is a sound English one, prac- tical and scriptural; and whilst due attention is given to the ordinary scholastic studies, sill the children are faught and trained to bo useful and handy, geneially, in attending to thom- selve^J, and in peribiming domestic and olho' duties. The girls make all tlieir cv*. olotliing (including frocks); the boys' shirts; tlu^v re- pair the boys' socks, etc., and help in house and laundry work ; whilst the boys, in addition to many duties it the house, work in the grounds and in the v/osk:.hops. Of still greater importance is it to be assured that the children are " brought up in the nur- ture and admonition of the Lord " (Eph. vi. 4) ; and that from their earliest j'ears they are instructed in " the holy Scriptures, which are able to make them wise unto salvation, through faith Avhioh is in Christ Jesus." (2 Tim. iii. 15.) Mr. Saunders, the inspector of schools, from the Borough-road Training School, in his lasi leport, testifies to the satisfactory working ot the institution, as follows : " The very cheerful and prompt obedience which has been secured and established, the harmonious working of all "t ^ iMimm ASYLUM FOR FATIFEKLESS CIIILDUEN. 165 ir ided in llic t cavo thai lln' iiid the (pmlit V jlothing is nol ntirely devoid pe, or iu any a conspicuous lisli onu, prac- duo attention tic Ktudies, all cd to he useful ding to thcni- stio and cthi-r r t -Vi. clothing lirts ; they re- [) in house and in addition to in the grounds it to he assmx'd up in the nui- " (Eph. vi. 4) : ears they arc res, which arc ration, through [2 Tim. iii. 15.) t' schools, from ool, in his last 5ry working ol' e very cheerful ,8 been secured working of all nil-: AoiX'Jji .vr liUMiHAM, r-jAii ciiuiDo:;, llu; 'drcatJoniil ageiicics, and the confidence and itui'i tion v/i(li which the teachers are rogiirded i.y the children, hold out the promiso of tlie uidst satisfactoiy results from these etticiont and inU.resting schools; while they must bo the sijiirco of much gratification and encouragement to the directors and friends of the charity." Tlie cheerful ha]ipy looks and free move- ments of the children indicate to the visitor ihat tlio managers and officers of the institution are verv desirous of niakin<>;, what to the bo- reaved orphan might aftei- all he but a cold, cheerless abode, a home of luippy hearts. it may be interesting to the }euder to state that, in addition to the ordinary cases of admis- sion to the benefits of the charity, by election, u jiowor is A'cstcd in the board of managers of admitting at once ])ecidiarly distressing and nigent cases of orphanage : (.if such class were iwo children who lost their fathers in the ill- fated " Amazon" some years ago. Another '■hild, only five weeks old, av<.s the daughter of .1 city missionary, who died from a fever caught iu attending cases of a malignant natiuo in his district. The mother, in her mental agony, lieeiimo an inmate of a madhouse, and gave birth to this child, while suifering from tho dreadful malady which detained her there. A list of the names of the children elected, with the occupations of the fathers, and the circumstances in which they were left, is pub- I ishcd with each annual report, and is obtainable at the office, 10, Poultry, London, A perusal uf this list alone ii^ calculated to arouse sym- ]iaihy for such instituti(;n,s, and to induce those who have means, and especially tho.-e wliO nvo lilessed with loving and h/vcd ones uf their u'.vn, to cumo forward liberally to aid tho bene- vulent elforts of tho ]noinuto!s of this and kindred institutions. To the already numerous supjiorters of such charities it nmst bo a KotU'cc of great gratification and a presi'iif rcv.ard, as they pass these homos, to ritlect and feel thai there dwell in comfort tho objects of their generous regard and Christian beneficence. Jn conclusion, wo present (as wo did in urging the claims of "the Orphan Workin,i\- .School" in Xo. .'J4I) tho scvijitural motive.; li. this ^y,ecial form of Christian charity. '• Tc vi: ii. ilie fatherless and widuAVs iu Ihcii' alliie- tion " is one of the divinely-ajipointed duties of "pin'o religion and undeiiled befoi'o God and the Father." Personal vieiting and assi.'itance may not be within the power of many, but the next best way of fulfilling this dutj- is by con- tributing to tho support of an orphan insti- tution. It is written, " Leave thy fatherless children, and lot thy widows trust in luo." To be the agents in carrying out this bencucent purpose should bo regarded as a privilege, and must bo approved by Him who is called '■ llic Father of tho fatherless." NOTES FROM AX ARCTIC DIAIJY. III. Afteu tho events recorded in our last chapter, the wind ceased, and the ice, cariying the ship with it, drifted slowly nortln\ards with the current, and gradually froze together. Tlia 166 NOTES FROM AX ARCTIC DIARY. ship finally became stationary about four miles nortli of IVinoess iioyal Inliuirl, ami by the Cfh of (.)ctobcr wa« r'X)fe(l in and arranged as fi winter dwelling. The following day, at eight in the niorninjr, •n- party started to visit the eastern coast, wliieh, thongh only six miles distant, took more than two hours to reacii over the rugged blocks of ice. " Wo planted the English flag upon a hill and took possession of the newly-discovered country in the name of Queen Victoria, the captain bestowing upon it the name of Pi'ince Albert's Land. Leaving the sailors to erect a cairn aiid bury a glass bottle with the intelli- gence of our visit, our officeiii strolled inland, and ascended a hill about 1200 feet high, in order to see, if possible, whether tho water in which the ship was frozen up was a gulf or a channel, but intervening heights prevented this. We at© our luncheon, which by this time was h»rd frosen, and then descending, re- joined the sailors and started on our return. In a quarter of an hour we came to a channel of deep black water, a hundred feet wide. Owing to the high tide, the sea had parted from the land-ice. For a long hour wo wandered up and down, hoping to find a place whore the rift narrowed sufficiently fi>r us to spring over, but tbe farther wp went the wide?- it became. '* Returning to the spot wlience we started, wo .iscendcd a mass of ice, more than thirty feet liigh, from whence we could .see the ship dis- tinctly, and tiled our gims as long as we hud any powder ; but the report did not reach so far. As it grew dark, we saw rockets tlirown up and cannon fired on board the ship, but that was of no use to us as wo had neither powder nor fuel to give an answering signal. Hunger and thirst wei-e now added to the other discomforts of our situation, and which was especially unpleasant to Dr. Armstrong and me, for in the dark wo had both slip])ed and fallen into the water. Being completely wet through, we found the cold almost intolerable, and could scarcely move in our frozen clothing. About nine o'clock, three companies with torches started from the ship in different direc- tions. With our united voicea wo shouted as loud as we could, but in vain. At last, about eleven o'clock, one company seemed to be approaching. We heard them fire, and shouted again, this time not without effect, and by midnight we had the satisfaction of speaking to them over the water. We were conveyed across in an india-rubber boat, and reached th^- ship safely by two in the morning, thankful to Ihid ourselves well and unharmed. A good supper awaited v.r,, to which, half famished s\s wo were, we did ample justice. This was our visit to Mount Adventure. " October 20th. This morning. Lieut. Sain.s- Iniry, Mi*. Paine, Kewton, ami J, started fo*' i'rince Albert's Land. A two honr.s' ir.aicli brought us to the shore, where we eolleelcd drift-wood and made a gfxxl fire. After taking some coffee, we proceeded inland in search oi' game and shot a hare. Returning to .ur fiio, we saw something coining towards n.s over the snow, which we took at first for a paity ' us were white. We loaded with ball and awaited their approach. Mr. Sainsbtiry was unable to use his sfun, his fingers being frozen etiir, so we three were obliged to prepare for a conflict with the unknown animalsi. As they continued to approach without seeing us, we lay down on the snow, about twenty paces from each other, on tho side of a low hill, and watched them as they came heedlessly nearer. Tlioy were tho size of an ox, with formidablf and somewhat crooked horns ; their bodies were covei'ed with long hair, which reached nearly to the ground, so that their fcei were scarcely vi.siblo. At the di^-tancc of about sixty paces they became aware of onr presence, stu]iped, began to snort and stainji, and tear up the snow with tlioir lurns. We fay (piito still, bur prepared for action. The largest ox now can)o slowly forward alone, stopping again a1 about thirty paces distant, when lie leeeivcd the first ball through his head. Turning round, he received another in his side, and returned to the rest, who were .advancing quietly. We crept fifteen or twenty paces nearer and fired again. The mortally-wounded animals were now furious, and it wat, well for us that wc fired from different dire -lio'.s, so that while one was attixcked the others had time to reload, 'i'hree were already killed, when one rushed direct.lj'' towards me. My gun missed fiic. tho percnssion cap having fallen ofi'. 1 started up. and it was only bj' an awkward side-jump that 1 avoided his rush. The animal, however, as much alarmed us I, bounded past me and iled without looking round. I soon put my gun in order and ran after the fugitive, which i found standing in the deep snow bleeding fnuu many wounds. Another bullet stretched him dead, and then I hastened back to aid in the contest with the last infuriated creature, but found *hat already dead. Wo had nt)W time to see how we had perilled our lives, and all acknowledged that it was only through tho protection of tho 1 KOTES FiiOM AN AiiCTlC DIARY. 1G7 f1 Lnid iLatAvo liad csciipcd uulnirt. "\\ o hail road in Sir JiimesKoss's narrative that ho Lad fuund luiisk-dxen on Melvillo Ishmd, and although Ave liiid never seen any, wo ouiild luA. doubt lli^kt llicwo uninmls were of that species. There Averc amongst them only one cow. Tlic greatest diliicnilty oi'thecha.so in Kuch cold is with one's slitieiied fingers to pnt on percussion caps." Captain M'Clure was then aksent on an ex- ploring expedition, the result of which is thus given ; — " October IHst. Yesterday moniing, at half-past nine, the captain arrived unexpectedly and alone. The previous morning he had left his party with the sledge about nine miles off, tliinkiug to reach the ship about two, and order a good meal to be in readiness for them. A snow-storm coming on, however, he lost his v.';>y, hud wandered about the whole night without rest or food, and had been twice in danger from bears. H» bad fired away all his powder in the hope of being heaid by the watch, but this must have been at too great a distance. At last, affer wandering for twenty hours, he found himHelf at daybreak only half an hour's distance from the ship. He looked more like a coi-jise than a living man. Be was unable to speak, and his limbs were stiff with cold. At midday the pprty came with the sledgo, and were astonished to hear that the cajitain had but just arrived. They had jjitched th'jir tent alter he left them, and, on account of the snmv, Lad passed the night in it. Tlicy returned, after an absence of ten days, in good lu.allli, and well pleased with the result of their journey. '• On thi' 2Gth of October, they had reached the end vi the water in which wo are frozen u}), and i'ound themselves at the caslern ex- treiuiiv of the L>nd seen bv ('aiitain Tarrv b .It thirty years befuic from IMelville Island, and named by him Banks' Land. To the north they saw only ice. and eastward tlie coast of I'rince Albert's Land. Tims th long-sought north- west paj;sage was found at last, lliis is really a channel, here only about ten miles wide, but having a breadth of thirty-five miles at the exirciuity; from the eastern ))oint of l!anks' Land, named P(jint Knssel, to the angle formed l)y the coast of I'rincx^ Albert's Land, named by our captain. Point Peel. The strait will Lence- forth bear the name of Priuce of Wales's St/ait " Tho recent disnovcries of Sir Leopold i\I'C]in- tock prove thai tho Liinonted Si'' John Fi'anklin hatl already discovered a noith-west ])assiige. That, of course. Captain IVPClure could not know : he Lad. therefore, evcy reason t<.i believe himself the first discoverer. " tsov. 1 Itli. To-day wo saw the sun for one minute onlv, and for tho last time this rear. Oh! how joyfully shall v\-c gre<;t the ooimainee- , ment of February, if -vvo live ! Snow his lu'cn collected, sawn into blocks two feet t;qi5are, witli which a wall eight feet thick has been bnilt all round the ship, to shelter from the cold : on each side of tho deck a snow staircase leads down to the now levelled ice. 'I'he decks have received a coating of snow a foot thick, trodden down, and then covered with a newly-invented polar cement, composed of snow, sand, and water. This will remain through the winter as hard as granite." At this time was carried out a long-cherished intention of establishing a school f()r the men. Five evenings in the week, from half-past six till eight, they received instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic. There were also four who studied navigation. They appeared to tnke an interest in leami'^g, and attended the school very regularl}-. December came in \vith stoi-my weather ; there was little snow, but a constant strong wind rendered the cold intense ; patients came daily to tho doctor with frozen faces and extremities. At the close of the month the journal records tho writer's gratitude to God for the many mercies that had distinguished this, the u'o«t eventful year of his life, for happy solitary houre, for continued health, and for the ('riend- ship and respect of the whole ship's company. Soon after, we find that when ^e had ;i1lained HiitVuient readiness in speaking English, lie endeavoured ])rudently and quietly to Lcnefil those around Lini. lie writes: " My cabin is open to all, and, to my great joy, scmie of tliem often come in. to -svlioni ' read tlie l>ible, and then converse with them upon the subject oi our reading." The dark winter day.s passed slowly away, clear and cloudless, but with no distinction between day and night, aiid little or none between one day and another. Those who neither read, wioti', dicw, nor knitted, found the time drag vcy heavily. It was otherwise with our industrious I'liei'.d , we find him .msily employed making thick cloth boots, with cork soles, "for himself and the captain, that they might be prepared foe tbe cha.so when dayiighl returJied : also repairing his uuderelothiu^^ and lining his sealskin coat with woollen. Oii January the ;]lst, the sun ]i'ap]ioared for a minute, and within a fortnight afterwards there was sufiicicnt light for tlie sailors to resume (heir ball-playing on the ice. Emplo,\- ment was foinul for them the next month in making a le\el road from the ship to Princes!-: Royal Island. It was not difilcult to foresee the piobablo fate of the ' Investigator' on the breaking up of tho ice ; but even if she were lost, the crew might escape to that i iimd, ind Hj;S32r'SS'!i?'S'?KH"!!^'Sm 168 ENCOUNTER WITH MUSK-OXEN. I 'IT WAS ONI.T nv AN .VWKWAUD trDE-JLJil' Tll.Vi 1 A\o;lli-D lila i.L^U.' •hence reach the shores of the continent. There- f'oro, as soon as the road was completed, pro- visions snfficicnt fur three months, together with clothing, aniniimition, and a large boat, were conveyed there, carefully socurol against liears and foxes, and the sailors forl'dden to visit the spot again, lest they should be ' jmpted by the spirit casks. At the commencement of -Vpril, an exact inventory was taken of the chip's stores. It was found tliat there wero provisions and fuel enough to last two j-ears, though not cant'' . sufficient to light two dark winters. " But wc all hope," remarks the dia- risi, "that next winter wo shall bo at home again. It is very beneficial that wo have now di<,ylight in the cabins. I v-udered to day alone on land ; was ir spirit w\,n my Esquimaux in Labrador, and san^, with them, ' 0, Bethany, thou home of peace !' '' Preparritious had been making for some time for sending out exploring partie,? as soon as the weather would permit. There were to be tlii-ee "orapauies, each consisting of an officer and eight sailors, furnished with a tent and provi- !»lons for a month. It was decided that they should start on Good Friday. The usual i-;er vice was held in the morning, and in the after- noon all mustered on deck. The parting was felt to bo rather sat., but the captain made a speech, the colours were hoisted, the t\vc-nty- four sailors harnessed *hemselves to their sledges, and Avith three cheers from their shi)^ mates, they st-rted in three diiferent directions. Under th^ date of the following Sunday, wc read : " In the iiiorning there was service ; and as the men could not go on the ice in the after- noon on account of the stormy v.'eather, I held a meeting with them, at the close of which I was requested to hold another soon." Of such times, it is said that " the Lord hearkened and heai-d, and a book of icmem- bi-ance was written before him, for them that feared tho Lord and that tliought u]ion his name." (Mai. iii. 10.) Lot us hope that the good brother's exhortations wore not without .some spiritual blessing; and if this nanative tb.lls into tho hands of any of his old shipmates, iray it soi-A-o to bring to remembrance their prayers in time of trouble, and their deliverance fiom tho perils of which we have yet to give tho record. THE \\ AY TO GOD. 109 Jeiic r THE PULPIT IN THE FAMILY. TIIK -WAY TO GOD. " Jesus saitl] unto Iiini, Iain the way, tlic trutli, ami till! litV' : no iiiiUi coiueth uuio tUo t'allier but by me."—Julm xiv, s, S there a wi,; tu i.UA ? Can wo Iravcrso that vadt expanse of 1li()Uj;;lit,tliatuimttei'abledifc>tunee, whieh yeeiu.s to lie bcfweon a Inimau soul and the iutinile Deity? It is tnio that "the in- visible tiling's of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the tilings that; are made, even his eternal power and Godhead." (Rom. i. 20.) linfc oven sup- posing the unsearchable Jehovah has in part manifested his attributes, unfolding to us as much of his nature and charaeler as human language can express, can wo draw near tu iiim with any expectation uf a faAxmrable I'egard — we, who have transgressed all his lioly laws, and neglected to do the things which Ave ought to have done ? Or, whore is Viis temple of mercy to Avhich a sinner can repair? A\"hero can wo hope to receive a visit it his grace, or a passing token of his pardon- ing mercy? Job, the best and most upright man of his generation, poured out a complaint on this matter, in the following mournful strains : "Oh, that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat I i woidd ')i'der my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. lie is not a man, as 1 am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment ; neither is there any .) It is evident that merely to know what God is, cannot give peace or satistt\ction. On the coi.trary, a proper sense of the Divine gi'and<);u- and holiness would overwhelm a tboT.'-iU 1 mind and awakened conscience. \Vt • :. feel assured, not only that there is a '^. . \uv' that he is approachable by his creatui.. 1.' uiit that there is a way in which :sinful mOitcN may come to him Avith accept- ance. Such a way has been opened for us l)y Christ ; " 1 am the way, the truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the I'ather but by me." Hero is a L^iand revelation. It tells us that there is a way to God, a Avay to God as our "Father." ^\'e can come where ho will deign to meet us in mercy, and show him.^elf >.\i' reconciled father and fiiend; for "God V s in Christ, reconciling the world imtresent one is hard or imperfect. He sets before you his own Avise mode of grace ; and ho does not promise life in any other Avay. Have 3'ou accepted God's terms of deliver- ance ? Or, is your Avay better than his ? A\ hy not at once submit to his plan of mercy? l)f» not dare to ho]-,e that the glorious Lord Avill save you, Avhether you come to his terms or not. Do not presume to think that, after all he has d(jne to reconcile a gxiilty Avorld, ho avDI change his eternal purposes, to suit the rebel- lious Avill of a AA'ayAvard ciealurc ; that lie Avill gu out of his great and holy Avay, to bless those Avho refuse to come in it for the otfered salva- tion. Pe assured, " there is none other mime under lieaA'cn given among men whereby Ava must be saved." (Acts iv. J 2.) Think! docs God ever go out of his Avay ? All nature witnesses that ho does not. Look at his doing-^ in piuvidcnce. The husband- 170 THE WAY TO GOD. ^1 niaii must cviltivate the gronncl according to the previous arrangements of the CJreator, if he expect to reap a harvest. The physician must use certain remedies, if he would cure certain diseases. You would stai-ve beside gi-anaries of wlieat, if .you refused to eat. Evei-ywhere there arc apj)ointed means for desired ends. What wo call miracles may be deviations from the common course of things as observed by our \ limited viow,-buttliey are foreseen and arranged | events, developing ihe purposes of the eternal j and unchangeable Ruler of heaven and earth. God does not move in the least to avert any of I the physical evils of man, where he has pro- \ vided means for man's use. He hp,s prepared I what is good for them ; he has given them the | ability to find it out ; and he says, " Seek it I oat and use it, or continue to suffer." This is the divinel}^ appointed constitution of nature and of man. | Tiie same principles prevail in the spiritual | world. Here, too, certain means are preor- ; dained for certain ends. For the evil of sin in the world and the heart th'ere is a grand I remedy, provided by tho all-merciful Lord, j Yet he allows the world to go on suffering, j from generation to generation. He has heard its groaning, whilst ages have rolled on, but he | lias not stiried from his purpose. He neither ' steps forward to deliver it, nor allcws it to i relieve itself in another way. The remedy is tln-ough Christ the Saviour, and can come [ thrnui>;]i him alone. Men have raciked their brains to invent means of reftmiiing society | without tho true religion ; but they have not' succeeded. Crod has set before them one sure I mode of relief; and when they will not adopt i it, ho lets tht;ra sutler on. They will not come i by this way, that they may have life and salva- tion. I This is right. It becomes the Lord of glory : to act in this manner. Were he to change or ' vacillitte in his plans, all confidence in the i moral government of the universe would cease; j and into heaven itself the element of insecurity ' would be introduced. Wore God to save sinners i each in his own way, Christ had died in vain. But God promises to dwell with the humble ! and oontiite soul, "to revive the spirit of tho | humble, and the heart of the contrite one." l Those who trust in the Divine provisions of [ salvation, will find them to be ample and satis- | fying. Thi!y are free and full. Everj'thing I about God is rich and great. He is "rich in mercy, rich to all that call upon him." If you come to him through Jesus Christ, yon will find that there is a bounteousness in his doings which sur])asse8 all that you can imagine. His way is like himself, rich and glorious ; it blesses us now, and leads us to heaven. Christ is able to save to (he uttermost all wlio come unto God through him. When you submit yourself to God, you submit to the Father of mci-cios, the Giver of all pjraco Oh, may the Holy Spirit incline your hearts to hear the gracious words of the Redeemer, " 1 am the way," and to hear also tho solemn warning, " No man cometli unto the Father but by me." HYMNS AND HYMN-WKITEES. KG. y. . • As the Wesleys, John and Charles, a ere men of genius and taste, both in music and poetr}-, it was to be expected that they would employ those powerful agents in the revival of religion in England, of which they were both such dis- tinguished instrumenta. Accordingly, singing and poetry were a conspicuous and attractive feature in the worship of their vast assem- blages, whether in tho open air or within doors. After many successive publicati(jns ol bvrans during their long public ministry, in ;i , ^ ■ »-r 1779 Mr. VVesle}' gave his sanction to a j} collection of hymns for the use of his cong. cions throiighout Great Biitain and Ireland. It was no fault of his if the collection did not at once displace every other hjonn- book in existence, for the patriarch thus liberally praises it : " As but a small part of these hymns is of my own composing " (the greater part was composed by the Rev. (Jharlos AVcsley), " I do not think it inconsistent with modesty to declare that I am pei-suaded no such hymn-book as this has yet been published 'in tho English language. Jn what nthor publica- tion of the kind have yon so distinct and full an account of scriptural Christianity ? such a declaration of the heights and depths of re- ligion, speculative and practical ? so strong cautions against the most plausible errors, pjvr- ticularly those that are now most prevalent ? and so clear directions for making ynur calling and election sure, for perfecting holiness in the fear uf God ?" In almost cverj' hymn-book, whether pub- lished under the sanction of particular do- nominations or by private individuals, hymns are to be found altered greatly from the words and even the sentiments of their original' authors. On this subject Mr. Wesley says: " Many gentlemen have done my brother and mo (though without naming us) the honour to reprint many of our hymns. Now, they are perfectly welcome so to do, provided they print them just as they are. But 1 desire they would not attempt to mend them, for they really are not able. None of thorn is able to mend either the sense or the verso. Therefore HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITEES. 171 I must bog of tliem one of these two favoure : I "Jesus, refujjo of my soul, oitLor to let tlioiii Btand iuat as thcv are, to ! ^J'^} ";° ^^' ^l'>' '"':!'f>' '*>' =„ take tnem for better or for worse, or to add the j ^vhile the temp(.st still is hic^l.." true readina; m the inargm or at the bottom of : . ,, ,. , ,«.,"• -i the |K,-o, that wo may no hunger he acconnt^bh) i ^=' 'iltcration surely most flattening and nn- eithor fur the nonsense or the doggerel of other , ''P^lf^'J- Henceforth it wonld bo most de- sirable that no changes Rhonicl be made unless for absolute heresy in doctrine or absnrditj' in manner, ancj in no case vitliout warning and notico whore we can find the oiiginah men." This is certainly a very reasonable leqiiest; yet when Wesley himself adojjted Watts's Hundredth I'salui, he altered or "im- proved " it. Watts wrote the first two lines: — "Nations attend before liis throne, With solemn fear, with sacred joy.'' Wesley change it thus : — "Before Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations l)ow witli sacred joy." Another distinguished hymn of W'atts was altered by the same hand with universal appro- bation. W'atts wrote : — " He dies ! the lieavenly Lover dies ! Tiie tidings strike a doleful sound On my poor lieart-strinpjs. D(!ep he lies In tlio cold caverns of the ground." Wesley's altered stanza is incomparably bet- ter:— "He dies! tlio Friend of sinners dies! Lo ! Salem's dnutfliters weep aroimd ; A solemn darkness veils the skies, A sudden trembling shakes the gionnd." The truth is, that hymns, by common con- sent, are subject to have liberties taken with them, to which no other compositions are sub- jected for a moment. We have many volumes of " Elegant Extracts," " Lessons in Heading," " Specimens from the Best Authors," etc. ^'^'hat would be said of any compiler of such books, if, without warning or n(jti(!e, he altered ;m opinion which he did not like, or changed the grammar and structure of the periods, to conform them to theories of his own ':* On this whim for making alterations take the following specimens : — A universal favourite, and deservedly so, is C-harles Wesley's hymn : — " JcKU, Lover of my sni'l. Let lue to thy bosom fly, Wliile the nciarer waters roll, AViiile tlie tempest still is higli. Hide me, my Saviour, hide. Till the storm of life is past ; Safe into the haven pnid(!, O veeeivo my soul at last. Other refuge have I none. Hangs my helpless soul on tbeo ; L(!ave, uh ! leave mo not alone. Still support and comfort me. All my trast on tliee is stayed ; All my iielp from thee I bring : Cover my dcfencelcSb; head With tlio shadow of thy wing." W e receive a hymn-book not known before, and turn to see if our well-known piece bo there, ^\'e find it thus tampered with : — "Hark, the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King ; Peace on eartli, and mercy mild, God and sinuors reconciled." This is a good beginning; the following verses by AVesley are rather inferior in merit. They are judiciously altered thus : — "Veiled in flesh the Godliead sec, Huil the incarnate Deity : Pleased as man with man to appear, Jesus our Inimanuel here. Mild ho lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die ; Born to raise the sous of ,.arth ; Born to give them second birth. Joyful all ye natioiis rise, Join ttie triumphs of 'he skies ; Witli the angelic hosts proclaim, 'Christ is born in Bcth.'ehem.' " On the 8th of j\Lirch, 1 750, there was great excitement and consternation in London, owing to some slight shocks of an carthqukke, and to give the thoughts of the people a right di- rection, Chfuies Wesley composed several hymns. " Come, Desire of nations, come ! » Hasten, Ijoid, tlie general doom! Hear tlie Spirit and the Bride ; Come and take us to tliy side. Mindful of thy chosen race, Siiorh'U tiiese vindictive days ! Hear us now, and save thine own, AVlio for full redemption groan." Another on the same occasion began thus : — "How wenk the thoughts and vain Of self-deluding men ; Mi'U who, lived to earth alone. Think tlieir iiouses rhall endure, Fijiidly call their lands iheir own. To their distant heirs secure !" The earthquakes of 1750 wore of no great violence, but in November, 1755, the city of Lisbon was nearly swallowed up. On this occasion Wesley produced the hymn : — " Stand the Omnipotent decree ; Jehovah's will bo done : Nature's end we wiiit to sec, And hear her final groan. < Let this eartii dissolve, and blend In death tl'.o wicked and the just ; Let those ponderous orbs descend, Anil grind us in tho dust Il'jsls secure the righteous man," etc. etc. 172 HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITEKS. Thcio is also a very sublime hymn by Wes- loy. " Tliou God of <;lorious majcaly, 'I I) thcf, iif,'iiiii.st niysi.'lf, to tlico, A wonn urciiitli I oiy ; A ludt'-iiwiikeiiL'd cliilil of iimii ; All lu'ir of ciulless Uiis or piiin, A biimci' born to (lie. 1,0 ! on 11 nniTow neck of laml, Twixt two nnbonnilcfl seas I staud, Seeniv, iuHeiiHiblo. A pdiut of time, a mouieiit's spaee, licnioves nic to tliat iiouvenly pluee, Of shuts mo up ill hell." Tlii.s ■was actually coinposod on the pro- luuntoiy of tlio Tiaml's Ei'd, in Cornwall. Dr. Adam ("larke, in 1819, i bus writes : "I write this on the last projecting; point of rock of the Tvand's End, upwards of two hundi'cd foot per- pendicular above the sea, which is raging and roaring tremendously, threatening destruction to myself and the narrow point of rock on which I am sitting. On my right band is the Bristol Channel, and before mo the vast Atlan- tic ocean. There is not one inch of land from the place on which my feet rest to the Ame- I'ican continent." This is the place where ' 'harles Wesley composed those fine lines : — '• Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twi.vt two unbounded seas I stand.'* The hymn (No. 140; entitled "Wrestling Jacob," many will agree with James Mont- gomery in ranking as among Charles AV'esley's highest efforts : — " Come, thou traveller unknown, "Whom still I liold but cannot see ; My company before is gone. And I am left alone witli thee ; With theo all nigl)t I mean to stay. And wrestle till the break of day. I need not tell theo who I .nm, My misery and sin declare ; Tliyself liust called me by my name, Look on thy hands and read it tliero : But wh. T .^,]J tliec, who art thou? 'J'ell me l.iv _idmo, and tell mo now."' The interest is increasingly sustained till the burst of joyful faith in the second part : — " I know tlioc. Saviour, wlio tliru ai't — Jesus, the feeblo sinner's friend : Xor wilt thou witii tlio night depart, But stay and lovo !no to the cud ; Thy mercies never shall remove ; TJiy nature and thy uumo is Love."' In the collection published by the Wesleys in 1770, there is a hymn beginning thus : — "Bcliold the Saviour of mankind Nailed to tho shameful treo ; How vast the lovo tliat him inclined To bleed and dio for theo, " etc. This is the composition of tho Rev. Samuel \Vesley, tho father of Charles and John ; and it is said to have been preserved in a very remarkable manner, when his parsonagc-houso ,'.-.t Epworth, in Lincolnshire, was set on fire by the pa' isliioners, who were e-xasporatcd bj' his faithfulness in warning and admonishing them for their pi'ofligate and immoral conduct. Thoy had attempted twice to fire tho parson's house, and succeeded at the third time. John, who was destined afterwards to bo so eminent, was then six years of age, and in the confusion and agonies of cscupu by the other inmates, had been forgotten, till he was hoard crying in tlie nursery, lie had been awakened by the liOjht and thought it day, but opening the curtains ho saw streaks of fire on the top of th-- roum. lie ran to the door, and finding it im- possible to escape that way, climbed upon ii chest which stood near the window, and he ^\•as then seen from the yard. There Avas nci time for procuring a ladder, but happily it was a low house ; one man was hoisted upon the shoulders of another, and could then reach the window so as to take him out. It was not a moment too soon, for the wdiole roof fell in, and had it not fallen inward they must all have been crushed together. In after life John ^Vesley had a house in flames engraved as an emblem under one of his portraits, with the verse, " Is not this a brand plucked out of the burning ?" As another memento of this cala- mity, four leaves of music remain, the edges of which bear tho marks of the fire. Charles "Wesley, junior, has written on one of the leaves : " The words by my grandfather, the Kev. Samuel Wesley : probably the music was adapted by Henry Purcell and Dr. Blow." The hymn — " How happy is the pilgrim's lot ! How free from every anxious tliougiit. From worldly hope and fear. Confined to neither court nor cell. His ooul disdains on eartli to dwell, He only sojourns here " — is b}' John Wesley, and with personal reference to himself. His opinions about matiimonj' were, at one period of his life, somewhat pecu- liar, and it was then, probably, that he wrote the stanza, now generally omitted, as he did afterwards marry, but very unhappily : — " I have no sharer of my heart, To rob my Saviour of a part, And desecrate the whole : Only betrothed to Christ am I, And wait his coming from tlie sky, To wed my happy soul." Some of the stanzas are remarkable for their elegant simplicity : — " No foot of land do I possess. No cottage in this wildeiness ; A poor wayfaring man, I lodge awhile in tents l)olow ; Or siadly wander to and fro, Till I my Canaan gain. > HYMNS AND HYMN- WE ITERS. Notliiiif,' on oiulli I cull my own : A strmi.i'ir, to tlic world uiikiunvii, I all tlR'iv jjoiiils (Icspisc ; I tniinplc nil their wliolu deliiilit, And sii'k II cuuiihy out of siirlil, A country in thu skies." Th ^^"eslcyiu^ collection is rich iu every vari-Qty of livnui for special occasions' in public worship, and some of these are in universal use bvyond the ^Methodist communities. For instance, every Christian assembly at f'hrist,- mas-tido celebrates the nativity of the Saviour in the words of ( 'liiirlcs Wesley : — " K:irk llii) licndd aiigols ^'w^. (tlory to tlic ni;\v-l)orn King. " And, at the openiuL; (jf devotional sen'ices at ill)}- season, how familiar arc the woi'ds :-— " i'ur ii heart to pnilso my God, A heart frijm .sin set live.' The more special occasions for which nianj- of tlio "Wesleyau hymns v:i:vt\ cfuuposed are well known to every v.'orshipper in .\lcfhodi.st con- gregatioDS — such ;is fuuemls, walcli nights, etc. Some of the most valued of tlie \\'csleyan hymns *re translations from the tiennan. Of these the finest of all is from a liyiiin i.f (/ount /'inx( -idorf, the .^ioravian : — "Jesus, t!iy blood and righteousne.-,'-- 3Iy beauty are, my glurion.s dre^.s ; ']\rid llaiLiiiiy; worlds, in lhe.sc ari'ayed, AVitli joy sliall I lift up my head."" The original contains twenty-four stanzas. The "Weslejan collection contain ten stanzas, and seloclions of these or other stanzas appear in most hymn-books. Another well-known translation is fiom the German of Terstcegcn : — •'Thou hidden love of God, whose lieiijhl, AVho.se de[)th niifatiiom'd, no man knows : I .see from far tliy beauleoiis light ; Truly I sigh for thy repose : My heart is pained, nor can it b(> At rest till it linds rest iu thee. ' A translation from the German of IJothe, " Now 1 have found the gTnce wherein," i.s a hymn expressive of various phases of Ohiistian experience, and two lines of it were among the last words of the sainted rictcher of Madeley : — " While Jcsu's blood, through earth and skies, Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries." There is a very beautiful funeral liymn by Charles Wesley : — " Shrinking from tho cold hand of death, I, too, shall gather up my feet ; Soon shall resign this lieethig breath. And die, my father's God to meet. Numbered among thy people, I Expect with Joy thy face to see ; Because thou didst for sinners die, Jesus, in death remember me. that without a lingering groan I may tl'.e welcome word reeeivi' : My body with my chnrge lay down. And cease at once to work and live." j "When John "Wesley's increasing infirjnities I moved his friends to wish he would sparr I himself, he would listen to no advice, nor I omit any of his religioTis duties and labours. I His continual prayer was, "Lord, let me not I live to bo useless." In anj' place where he 1 gave to his society what he wished to be con- '• sidored as his last advice, ho invariabi}- con- ' eluded with this verse : — j "0 that witliout a lingering groan ; 1 may tlie wileome word rec(jive ; I ^ly boily with my charge lay down, \ An;bt bo read to her : — , " Vital spnrk of heavenly flume. Quit, O qiiit, this iuort;iI iViiinu! Trt'iiibliiifj, hoping, liiif^cjrinp;, tlyiug, Oil the piiin, the bliss of dying! Cea.sL', fond nature, cease tliy strife, And let mo languish into life. Hark ! they \?hi8per, angels say, " Sister spirit, come away." What is this absorbs me quite? yteuls my senses, aliuta my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, niy soul, can this be death ?' When reading tho second verse, she ex- claimed with eager ecstatic joy, as if already ono of tho spirit-band: ''Hark! they call mo; soon, soon shall I be there. Come, Lord .Jesus, fetch me home." Beforo the morning dawned, she fell asleep, no more to wake tmtil tho arcli- angel's trump shall bid her rise "clothed in his likeness." " She landed in the view Of tlaming liosta above. Whoso ranks stood silent while slio drew Nigh to tho throne of lovo, And meekly took tho lowest sent. Yet nearest her Redeemer's feet." The peaceful and happy death of a believer in Jesus aflbrds convincing evidence of the value of those principles of tho " gospel of the grace of God," which have been the support of Christians in all ages. The martyr for Christ, and those whose entrance into the dark vallej has been soothed by the attention of beloved friends, have alike needed and alike experienced the sustaining influence of Divine truths. It was my painful duty on the sabbath fol- lowing the death of my dear friend, to supply herl inaf am ,te:t| lUUl th(f rt]\ ; he; ;■ rui| siol die ( wo| W( glc , 1 V tly .-Jio liionl]_v < lo bo mh of > greui Cliri;st lu had d no\r sf noto <)!IS to iiit of luur- ro,s(; love;, eart to ;r, and \ I'^Jaer class, ami fdl tho vacancy ^vhioh had heeii '/ |nadc'. I .shraidc fioni Iho hitU'V onh'id of aniKumciiig 1o tlio j^irla that lliuir Ltdovcd ,>j|(ie;u;hi.!r wiifi no more. 1 Kit In niuurufnl .-iluncc 'until all %viM(! assembled, ^vhcn. in answer 1o their anxious encjuirin^ o^^*-'' ^ could only reply, " N'd; is il<'ud,'' Oh, the aj;(.ny of th;it grief, th« sacred .sileuco of that sorrow, my heart ean never forget. None dared to infer- rxipt it, until one of the dear girls, with impas- sioned earnestness, exclaimed : "iS/'/e will /■cv^;r die! she will live in onr hearts and lives, for wo ^v*ill follow her as she followed Christ, and wo sliall be as so many gems in her crown of glory." \\'ill not Snnday-school teachers covet such a testimony as this? \N ill thoynot iitrivo more earnestly and prayerfully to win souls toChri.-ty seeking diligently for l>ivino wisdom to dis- charge the solemn and momentous trust they have assumed — that of rescuing souls from eternal d(!ath? "He that winneth souls is wise. They that bo wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever?' The high estimation in which this devoted, humble, consistent disciplo of the Lord Jesus was held, was testified by the numerous con- gregation assembled, and by the presence of the Sunday-school children, all attired in em- blems of nnmrning, particularly her own dear girls, whose bursting liearts and tearful eyes told how greatly they suft'ered when her lieloved Eastor spoke of her holy, useful life, taking for is text those words of our Saviour, " She hath done what she could." Tier sun went down ere it was yet day, but she had lived to refieot the brightness of the Sun of righteoiisness, and to allure otlierij by her influence to bask in its warming rays. Oh, will not that same love constrain those in whose hearts it is shod abroad, to make untiring efforts for the promo- tion of the Redeemer's glory ? Will they not Ibo live, that when they die it may be recorded of them, that for Christ they "have done N\hat they could ?" Christ calls us to his help; he uUows us to work for him, giving to each a circle of influence, and making us tho special instruments of good and great things. " Go, labour on, while it is day, Tlio worlil's dark night is iiustcning on ; Speed, Bpeed thy work, cust sloth away : It ia not thu» tiiat souls aru won. Toil on, faint not, keep watch and prny, Bo wise tho erring sua) to win; Go tbrth into tlio world's liighwiiy, ComiK.'l tlie wanderers to come in. Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice ; For toil comes rest, for exile home; Soon slmlt tiiou hear the bridegroom's voice, Tho midnisjht penl, 'Behold I eeinc?'" •' SHE WILL ^'EVJilK DIE." 176 yngfa for tljc •^•'nnnij. I mnoW DARKSIDE AND WIDOW BRIGHTSIDE. CIIAPTlJlt If. Ap I liked Widow Brightsido tho bettt, 1 think 1 wi!' tell you ubont her flrat. Of ciinrso you understand that tiiis was not her real name ; I only call lier so boeanso shu always looked at tho bright and liiippy side of thingri, and ReeiiK.d so full of thaidtfulnessti) God for many little blessing.i wliich some people scarcely notice at all. In fact, bIio was always Uncling out a fii.'.'jii can.su for rejoicing, as yu^i will see from an account of some of our afternoon visits. I remenilK'r it was on one day in April wlu.n we called, mamma and I ; Widow Brightsidu liad beeoma by that time like an old acquiiinttmce, and chatted away (piite I'reely about her concerns. She had had a gri at many trials, but she had learned to see tho hand of God in wiiatever befel her. She had been used to have a finu house, servants to wait on her, and plenty of money. And what were more than these, she once had two danghter.-i and a iiusband who loved her as I am sure she deserved to bo loved. Yet though it had pleascil God to take away all these, she tiover murmured, nor mwle people unhit])py by C(mii)laints ; but I bear the cross ':'" "Well," flidd mnmma, "if we look round, wo shall sea many things which should make us thankful for cur lot ; butslill you must feel lonely sometimes." " If I do, I liiid a medicine for loneliness here," she said ; and she laid her hand upon the Bible ; " but still I ,un very glad to see a friends face, for I have not been long accustomed to dwell by myself" Mamma and Widow Brightside had a good deal moro talk about things I did not very well understand ; and when we got up to go, mamma asked if she would allow me to come and epeml a little time with her now and then. The old lady was quite pleased, and said I might go wiieiiuver I liked ; and nmmnui thaidced her ; for sho told me afterwards she was glad for me to have sucli a beautiful example of contentment and submission to tlio will of God as I should sec in that little almshouse ; and she be^ed me to be very respectful to its tenant, be- cause sho was not only old, but a servant of God. The next day I went by myself to see Widow Brighi- side, and she. let me read tlie Bible to her, and showed 176 WIDOW DAIIKSIDE A^D WIDOW BIUGIITSIDE. mo ft pii'cnt many of tlio bpiiutiful Scriptiivo proiiiisi\s v.'liicli iimdo lior U-xA so linppy ftiul lio|i(l'iil. t*lio said, too, timt hIu' felt very <;lnil indeed timt xlie had bmi t:m<,'lit to learn by heart so many passii}j;es of Seriptnre when she wa.s ii litti(^ ;;irl, for they had come into her tniiid just lilce nu'Ksa;,'es from (lod when they were thi; most needed to comfort her. "And now, Annie," she anlud, "if you were in avcnt tiould" heeunsr you had lest some very near and ihar relation, do yon think you could llnd ii verso in God'.s word to comfort you Y' "I do not know where lo lind on(> ; Imt I know tlicro nro such in tiie IJihle," I said. " hecanse mamma snyi? there in nil \\c want to he found in (iocl's iioly book," "Wlien I lost my husband and ehilihcn, I filt that a ijoro ehastisenKMit, Annie.' AVidow Urightside's voi<'e trembled a little when shn >nid this. iShe pressed my little hand botwi'cn hers, and jiaused a moment. Then she said. "IJnt I remembered liuse words, 'For whom the liord loveth lie ehastcnetli, and spi)urjreth every son whom lie reeeiveth.' Still if .Heemecl rather hard to Ihink the sorrows and trials that are sent an- a jiroof that tJod loves us; but that is ex- plainid, too, in a verse a little further on in (he same cihapter. ' Now, no chastening fur iltn jn-eseut seemith to bo joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afti rward it yieldeth the peaerabh' IVnits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.' So you see, little Annie, tlie liible tf)ld mo that uiy chasteniujg would seem grievous at tins time, but it promised mc rich and peace- able fruit hereafter.'' "lint you had more Inmblr i-till, bad you not?" I ii.-k(d ; for I wanted to knov,- where Widow Ib-ighlsido found einifort when .-he lost her line Imu'^e and money. "Yes. Annie," .she answered, "I had: but when povi rty enme, and I did not know how I sliouul lind bread in my old age, and I was beginning to futl rather anxious about my fntmc, there were so many texts to cheer my heart, that I can scarcely repeat them all. Tlu.se are some of them. I was told not to ' take thought for tho morrow, for the morrow would take thought for tho things of itself;' and 'Consider tho riwcns: for they neither sow nor rea]), which neither have stnre-houso nor liarn, and (iod feedeth them ; how much more aro yc better than the fowls?' 'And seek not what ye shall eat, or what y(! shall drink, neither bo ye of doubtful mind;* 'Your Father knoweth that yc iiave need of tho.so thing.s ;' 'But seek ye fust the king- dom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.' " Then I had another trial besides tho loss of wealth, Annie; for I found that many people had only cared for me because they thought I had riehes, and forsook mo in the time of adversity. But clear above nil other thoi'ghts in my mind came the blessed words, 'I will never leave thee, nor for.-ake thee ;' and I felt that I Ji.ad a Friend above all earthly ones to wliom I could trust my cause .and my wants." "And did you never feel afraid at all?" I asked. "Did you never think that you might be forgotten ?' "Xo, Annie; because 'God is not a man that he should lie ;' and I knew ho would never break his pro- mise, imless I cea.sed to believe in him." 'Wlicn I heard dear Widow Brightside speak in this way, I felt that I should like to be able to trust in God as slio did ; and binco then, the old lady's words have ollen come to my mind, atid I am so thankful that I had friends to teach mo about my heavenly Father's lovo and goodnes.s. Often I think I should have been ready to iaint, "unless,' as David says, "I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in tho land of tho living." Oh, dear children, it is such a delightful thing to go to the Lord's footstool, and tell Jesus all om- wants, and liojies, and fears, knowing that he care.s for us. IIow Widow Brightside took comfort I'lon). and <;\. sure in, the earthly work.s of God, 1 will till you 'n, Week. ANSWFII TO SCniPTITin-l KXIGM.V. .Ml. IV. "Ill .Toifisfi IN- Hov\:."—Ilnw.\\\. ^■.'. ll-ebekah K-lisha . .f-ehn . ()-(hd . I-coninm C-anaaii . l-saae \-aanian G-edalii'l: T-mlah . N-aomi . H-obub . O-phir . P haraol; E-n''edi . Gen. xxvii. 1."). 2 Kings vi. IS. 2 Kings X. ;!(!. 2 Chron. xv. I — Acts xiv. I. .losh. ii. ',). (on. xxiv. -1. 2 Kings V. !». 2 Kings XXV. 2'. 1 Kings sxii. 0. lluth i. 20, 2!. Xnm. X. no. I King.s ix. 2S. Ilxod. viii. 2. 1 Sam. xxiii. 20. SCRIPTURE EyiG:M.\. NO. vt. Tun mistress of a south and wide donuxin : A wnrftiy man who lived in Ahab's reign : A leper who to Israel's prophet came ; A town which did the Saviour's jiity claim : A name expressive of a mother's grief ; A I'l-arless jirophet and a gn.'at man's c'lief ; A blind deceiver of the wise and gnud; Iiirds made to bring a proplntt d;ii!y food ; l>he whose hard heart was ojiencd liy the woi " : An ancestor of .lesns Christ our Lord : A man whose death excited David'.^ ire A .'■ervaut guilty of an act most dire ; A fish emi)loyed to stay a prophet's course ; A dauntless man who dared the fire's fierce force : A noble instrument in hands divine ; One from whose early childhood grace did shine. If in the ninth and fifteenth lines nro taken Tho second letter, none can be raisbikon. The first of all tho rest will give the clue Of a wise precept, both for mo and you. And may tho Spirit fix it in each heart. That we mny henceforth chooso the better part MENTAL SCENES AND riCTUR E. KO. V. •' Pride ^ooth before destruction, iind a ImugUly spirit before a f:ili.' I'roi'. xvl. 18. Tnv; light which streams in througli high n.-inov windows shows us tho interior of a building whose wall weic lined with gold. What a strange scene of ccntes; and excitement on this eacred ground ! A robeil raonarol, is moving towards tho altar, with a deterrdned air. bearing in his iiand a golden censer, from which ascenJ a cloud of fragrant incense. Pressing around him, am fearlessly oppo.sing his nearer approach, aro a comp.'iny of men, clothed in white. The king, with a face full e' fury, pushes on in defiance of their authority. NVe look again. For a moment all is still, and cvei ; eye is fixed upon the king. A dreadful change hi: passed over him. His countenance is full of luirror, ami a ghastly hue overspreads his brow. Tiie censer fali- from his bands, which are clasped together, as in sud- den anguish. With awe-struck faces the priests now urge him forwards ; lie yields without a struggle, an'l the folding-doors close upon his retreating steps. ^^0-^ •!, ^. n- tv-;c :-'Axv II. t^'4(. ■•■^') k comfort iVoni, nml God, 1 will tell Vdii 'TTIUK KXrO.MA. ." — Ram. xii. 1:'. I. xxvii. 1."). :iii'^« vi. IS. iii^'.s X. ;i(i. I'loil. x\. I -'■. H xiv. I. Ii. ii. 0. I. x\iv. f. in;,'3 V. it. iiig.s XXV. \i:',. iii'^'s sxii. ;t. li i. ::!0, -J! II. X. ;j(). iiigH ix. 2S. III. viii. 2. nil. xxiii. 20. rxig:\i.\. (I wiilo (loniain : II Almb'.s rei;^'i ; )l)lii't caino ; ioiir'.s ])it_v elttim : )tlii'i''s .ijriil' : [•(.■lit iimu's cliicf ; iu iiml ;.'iiuil : liiitt {l;iily I'dimI ; opened liy tlic wur ' : ;t our I.onl : 1 Duviil'.s Ire :no.it. dire ; )roi)liet's uoinsc ; llie fire's fierce Inrcc da divine ; Ihood graco did shine. 1 lines arc taken 1 be mistiikoH. give tlic clue nie and you. eacli heart, IOO.SO the better part ND FICTURI<1 lunigUty spirit before a fall. 8. through higli nano. f a building whoso wall strange scene of ccntci-: ound ! A robed monarcl with a dcterr lined aii. iscr, from which ascenJ rcssing around him, ;iii.i pproach, are u compaii} king, with a face full li' cir authority, nt ail is still, and every A dreadful change hr. lice is full of horror, ami jrow. The censer fall- ped together, as in awh : faces the priests now without a struggle, iin'I retreating steps. THE SUNDAY AT HOME: % JfHmily IHagafinc for Mh\\ |leabing. jKr.F.Mr.vii liKriiuvixa Tin; nwi.ATiiv or iiis rnorLK vin;.N in i-ovir. LIFE AND TIMES OF JEREMIAH THE rKOPHET. c II \ p r K n VII. THK K.XILK. " I am witli thee, and will keep tlioe In all places whither Ihou goest.'— O'en. xxvili. 15. jEniCMi.^ii's captivity was over when that, of his conntry began. Nebuzar-Adan, the Baby- lonian general, treated him kindly. (Jer. xl.) Bj- the king's special command, ho was free to go where he pleased. He chose to dwell quietly in the land of his fathers, where the lower orders were left in peace, and the in- S'aders withdrew when theit dominion was No, 361.— PDiii.tsKF.D March 38, issi. secure. A plentiful harvest was gianled to crown the resumed labours of the husband- men, and the rule of Gcdaliah, whom the king of Babylon appointed governur of the land, began in peace and hopefulness. But soon new troubles arc. e. The king of the Ammonites formed a jilot against the go- vernor, and engaged an unprincipled man, named Ishmael, to slay him. Gedaliah was generally liked; all the captains remaining in the land had willingly submitted to his authority. One of these, Johanan, the son of Kareah, hearing of the plot, warned the governor of his danger, and entreated per- PnicE One PF.sKr. 104 TJFi'i AND Tnn:s op jkremiah thk rnoriTET. I mission to Kill IthitiHcl bcfovo ho coiilil t'X( (.'iilo his wii'koil Huil, lis uriiig JohHium thiit his Mispicion.s wcio luitnuudc*!. 'I'ho ii()ble-mitul(.en must ho havo icpoatcd, " 'i'he heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; who can know it ?" (Jer. xvii. d.) " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or tho leopard his spots ? then may yo also do good, who aro accustomed to do ovil." (Jer. xiii. 23. ) Or, contrasting the many devices and continued disappointments of the pers'orse nation among whom he dwelt, with the comfort ho was per- mitted to expericnv;(3 amidst all his trotddes, ho could set his seal to the words he had long before uttered : " Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from tho Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall )n(l (imo iuv.jlvc.l oict do Ko nguiii. woro mistuktii ; 'liifh fhoy wcij ^ongiit all oudoii," said Frank, " fatlior charged mo to bring back a complete set of dentists' instrnments; for the wholo tooth-drawing of tho district devolved upon us, and we were sondy bestead for tools." It was evident to Mary's niind, as she listenod to tho eager appeals,' watched the oonfidiiig trust, and smiled at the exuberant gratitude oi' tlie pcK.r clients of tho Hollands, that hero was a field for earnest, humble, self-denying labour, such as life might never again offer to her aocejitance. Her heart, in which God's gi'aco had long been working, readily took the con- viction, which she found assimilated so happily with tho attachment to Frank Holland, now no new feeling thero. And so she retunicd homo to make ready for the bridal. irTTHSSfli NOTES FEOM AN ARCTIC DIAIIY. 197 •p cilgc from till) rank was terri (it'll d inspection, hut 3st to remedy tho as soon spread — I caught not fur ind a coiiplo of I. The host and cssed like gentlc- 3ut the son sniil- th, that " father was his day to bo i, cottiers' daugh- V and then peeped inks of the door, ed woollen petti- loom of the old IS ho waited upon 3y were not pie- ^pirit of chivalry, imself. It was a len Mrs. Holland dness, her sweet ristian talk ; and vas laid at night nd hosts, guests, thered solemnly ith and the gospel . to offer np the jegan to feel that ihuroh in the wil- dreaVy an allot- Avas thoroughly voiild be, fchonld riio poor peasant onsc, each urging nid, or motherly all sorts ; and the past twolvc- [\tients had been 10 whole distrirt lical attendance. London," said to bring back a innents; for the listrict devolved leslead for tools." 1, af! she listened d the confiding srant gratitude of lIs, tliat lierc was ■-denying labour, ain offer to her lieh (jod's grace ly took the con- ilated so happily Holland, now 7io returned homo In duo season !Mary North became Marj' Holland, and accompanied her proud and plejuiod husband to his nest in the crags. But it was not to be a very smooth arrival, .and the bravo bride's cheerful faith was rather shar])ly tested on the way. A great bog had to be ero.ssed in that direction by which they were approaching the homo of the Hollands, and the (•av on •which they were travelling had to be dismissed miles oif from the desired spot. The rains had made the bog more treacherous than usual, and all the luggage must be left behind. And so Mary took off her bonnet, deposited it in one of the deserted boxes, threw a woollen petticoat over her bonnie head, and essayed the formidable bog. But Frank was too chivalrous to allow his bride to plunge and struggle on- ward by his side, to her new home, in that dreary fashion ; and, taking her lignt figure in his aruis, he bore her over bog and moss, through i)ool and sti'eam, over rock and rugged- ncss, until he set her down in trimupli on the threshold of her future mission, the grand rock- built home of her life's happiness. And were you now to ask that bright, cheery, hopeful young English matron for her definition of earthly happiness, she would say, with sparkling eyes, " A humble homo on a narrow ledge of rock on one of the cliffs of Iroland that over- hang the western waves, with Frank Holland for a husband, and with a mission field to culti- vate for a dear Saviour's sake." Keader, we will not tell you where nestles this home amidst the screaming sea-fowl, the driving spray, umI the solemn music of the l.ioomhig waves; iiut if you had only the right clue, you might easily find it for yourself. NOTES FKOM AN ARCTIC HIARY. IV. nid "I WITH THKE." Ita. xlitl. 1, nod 1 That. Iv. 17. " I luith thee' — while; in u world Ol' sin, and toil, niid can.'. " lltnn with mc" — in tlmt bright world Where all i.s pure and fair. " I with diee" — when' Korrowa roigii, Anil woes iind iroubles iiK.'ot. " 77(OH mih mc" — wlicro every day Fresh joy springs 'iieath thy feot. " I It ith thee" — where storai.s ariae, And clouds succt-od the rain. " Thou icith me' — where not ii blast Swccp.s o'er the heuveuly plain. " I with thee — wliilo passing thfougli K'l'n di.ath's dcop vulc of gloom. " Thou with iii€ — wlu'u nil is lost lu life's perennial bloom. And dids't ihou leave thy glory, Lon], For iwh a world as this; Ami shall tee monni, its toils to leave, To be with thee in bliaa ? .\. A. W. TiiK sledge parties all returned iji srifety most of tlie men in good health. It is scarcely necessary now to add that they hiul foinid no traces of t'lu Franklin expedition. Lieut. Haswell had met with some Esquinuiux, in- habiting five tents on a promontory of Prince Albert's Land. As they were only one hun- dred miles from the ship, Capt. M'Clure re- solved on paying them a visit, accompanied by Mr. Miertsching, with the view of obtaining from them some knowledge of the south-eastern coast. With a sledge and tdx men they set forth immediately, and after five days' travel- ling, had the satisfaction, on reaching tho summit of a hill, of seeing the tents below them. " Full of expectation," says Mr, IVIiertsehing, " as to whether the people and I should under- stand each other, we approacned them. As soon as we came near cuoiagh, I called out that we were friends, and had brouglit them beautiful things. They were silent, and I feared they cordd not understand me, till they all cried, ' We are afraid ! wo arc afraid !' They did not place themselves in a defensive attitude, not even having any weapons, but they waited our approach in fear and trem- bling. It cost many words and some presents to win tlieir confidence, they having never seen foreigners before, and jtorhaps looked upon us iis supematuial beings ; but as I wore the Esquimaux dress, and they understood mo so well, thoy probably tocik mo for an actual man. Of tliis they convinced them- selves afterwaids by feeling my anus, face, and hair. Thoy hoard with groat astonish- ment that there were many other inhabited countries, having 8U])posed themselves to bo the only people in the world. After they became confiding, and we had answered their eager questions as well as we could, a large sheet of paper was spreat^ out on a sealskin, upo:i which I drew our ship, tho way from it, and the coast as far as their tents ; tliey were then requested to continue the outline of the coast. It took 'ime trouble to make the matter clear to them, I at in an hour's time the draw- ing was com.tleted, and pronounced correct, both by meri and women, who knew the coast well. It extended as far as I'oint I'arry in Victoria Land, even tho already known Sutton and Listen Islands in Dolphin and Union Strait being correctly marked. " According to them, many Esquimaux in- habit this coast. They named to us several promontories, and the families dwelling there- on. Their ideas of a God, of a future state, 198 NOTES FROM AN ARCTIC DIARY. iind of tlio .sTiu, luoou, ami niavn, were tlic t'tuuc as those of tlic people at Cape l>iv11iiirht. 1'lioy sjHtko also of a liigh nionntiiiii. cm tlie siiiimiit of w'liicli tlieiv furcfuthers hud lived in tents during the time of a great walcr. Jt grieved me to leave these simple people so soon, hiit llie captain could not stay Linger, on Hewlett's account, wlio \vas quite unable to walk. Hew- lett wa« a mulatto, wlm.se feet were so severely fro.st})itton during this journey that it was found ncPGBsary In amputate t-ovcn of his toes. " I now divided among them the gifts we had 1>. . ught, rod and blue flannel, saws, knives, iicodles, etc., but of the meaning of a present they had not the .smallest idea, and brought all manner of things to give in rctuin. After we had taken our leave, the captain, who felt really sorry to leave them after such a short acquaintaneo, turned back and tied his large red comforter round the neck of a young wom.an who stood near, with her child on her back. Slie was frightened, and exclaimed that she had nothing to give : then hastily talcing her infant out of lier bi-east, .and kissing it, she otl'ered it to the ciipfciin by w.ay of payment fquim;iux wliom avo had seen were avaricious and thievish: here, on the contraiy, we observed nothing of the kind." 'J'he ice was no longer safe to travel upon in June, and the sportsmen had the mortifica- tion of seeing reindeer through their telescopes, Avithout tho chance of shooting a single one. But. the actual breaking up, on duly 14th, occiUTcd so siiddenly, that a quantity of linen, laid out to whiten, was lost. All was now activity and ho]ie ; the ten months' imprison- ment was at an end. 'J'he crew were assend)le(' on dock, and the captain addressed them kindly but seriously. I] very one was to be prejiared to quit the ship in case of the worst, the boats were to be kept in readiness, and each man's little bundle must be at hand. The next three weekfs. witit a few intervals of calm, were p.a8Red in gieat peril. " July 1 Sth. 'I'he strong north-east wind con- tinues, and the i^o presses fearfully on the '■"' .p. Till' attempt to anchor to a iloe failee accomplished, ihe ico became suddenly motion- less, and an almost awful stillness succeeded. The feelings of that moment were indescribable. All stood pale and silent." The calm continued ; and during the next two days, by blasting ice, tho ship, which was lying oTi its side, was righted and got afloat agiiin. On Monday, September 1st, the captain KOTES FKOM AX ARCTIC DIARY. 199 3 danger Iho night 'lie ice, Koniotiuics ;-iinpowtler, nailing -■n water, a«d then ■y of anotlier " ico s to procoed in ;i I vailing, the onllet ed by twentj'-tivc empfc Avas final] v now clear of ice te ' Investigator ' ;d that the waves and even washed Ison's Head was tain M'CIure had Ikring Land, in Island ; he tJiere- n line of coast fur ipediment. Then ■G, " of which no 1 form any idea," adicular cliifs on vail and tlic cliii- irrower and nar- room for the ship peatedly blasting the}- came to ii I rendered further Avas moored to a that a land-M'iiul or more than a !> ; then a high loith-west wind nnnotion. 1 day of anxiety ad never before- ok in the niorn- vUh onr bundles Lill3'-toHsod sliip, on tlio otlier, and i^ortitions le evening the ■eat indeed that is all over ; the ninutesshe will r? hope tliattlio land, where wo for the next le tivo anclior tin's conld Ikj ulenly motion- loss sncceoded. indescribable. iring the next lip, which was and got afloat st, the captain addrcfjsed the sailors ; ho spoke of the merciful preservati'in of the ship, and admonished thorn to bear in mind that wondeifiil deliveiance, Rud nut to lot their courage sink at the pros- pect of another winter; adding, in conclu- sion, that nothing ebould be wanting on his part to make every one's life as pleasant as possible. The biief arctic summer was indeed almost over; the pack remained still and freezing together ; it appeared probable that this must be their winter quarters. In order to employ the men, they weie set to collect stones on land to serve as ballast for the next year. But a liigh wind drove the pack out to sea, .\nd with it the ship. Several hundred pounds of powder were expended iu vain ; at last the ice spli^ of itself, and the vessel, once more afloat, though without a rudder, came to anchoi safely that night fifteen miles beyond the spot where stones had been collected. Some days passed iu great danger ; much toil and immense quan- tities of powder were expended with but little success, " It is a troubled, restless life. Only thy strong aim, Almighty, gracious Lord, can ^.3scu«^ us !" " September 17th. The weather is clear and cold, the pack freezing together. Should this be our winter quarters, next spring, humanly speaking, all will be over with us and the ship. ()n the breaking up of the ico, the vessel must inevitably be crushed or stranded, and from here it would bo impossible for us to reach our dep6t on foot." But this was not to be ; a storm broke up the ico agaiU; and with a favourable wind, the ' Investigator ' held on her course once more. A high promontory was passed to which the captain gave the name of Cape Crozier, imder the shell er of which they passed a quiet ^Mght. On the morrow, Sunday, atici- Divine ser\'ico the way was cleared by blasting, and the vessel towed liy four cigbt-oared boats. Then a thick fog came on, but on Tuesday it wa« clearer, and the wind being stro: ^c. , all the sails were set and soundings taken eveiy two niinutts. "At the foremost head was stationed, as usual, a man termed an 'ice-pilot,' who indicates the l.iest way for the ship through the ice, com- municating Avith th(! oflicer of the watch through a long gutta-percha tube. As to- day neither of the successive ice-pilots made any communications, and to repeated ques- tions the only answer returned was, ' All ice,' the officers nevoral times went aloft to convince themselves ; for notwithstanding the assurance that far and wide there was nothing before us but ice, wo wore sailing six miles an hour. ITiey found it rcuPy so. Before the ship there was a short strip of water, beyond eye could reach, nothing The helmsman held the which, as far as the appeared but ice. ship so that the sails received the full power of the wind, the sailors had nothing to do but to walk up and down, talking over titiis strange occurrence. " This continued for hours. Then tbe ice- pilot shouted, * Heavy ice ahead !' The men flew to their posts, and the captain ordered all the sails to be reefed immediately. Before this order could be executed, the pilot shouted again, • Hold ! the ice divides and opens before us.' It did so, to eveiy man's astonishment. Without the least difficulty, the ship sailed on through a narrow way between ice so high that the ends of the j'ards touched it on either side. For half an hour we sailed through this strait whicli God had pre|»e,red for us through the sea, a.-; of old for the children of Israel, until we came among lighter ice. This event made a deep impression upon all, and the sailors conversed earnestly among themselves about it. " After this, we held on •with full sail in fog and siiow, not knowing whither or how. Only this wc knew, that, somewhere in an ear^terly direction, the land must lie named "uy Sir Edward Parry Banks' Land, and that the ice covering the sea all around made way itr u.s. At last the ice-pilot, quitting his post without peimission, came on deck and excused himself tu the oflicer of the watch, by saying that he could stay up there no longer ; it was all ice before us, not a 6p( onful of water to be seen, and yet the ship sailed on, as might jilainly be seen by watching the land. He could not be prevailed on to go aloft agiin, so nnich was he awe- struck bj' these inL'i|jlicable oc niTcnces. It grew dark rarly, owing to the fog and snow; the captaii herefore ordered that, as soon as wo canie to u -.uituble mass of ice, the sailn should be reefed lud tin- ship anchored for the night. " About half-past six tlus ship stnnk un- expectedly upon a sand-baMi. Every i no ex- erted hiuiself to the utmost to got her ofl' before the heavy ice should cnish or diivt; her on shore. Casks and other heavy tl ings were transfeiTcd to the boats, in orde' tn lij^hteu the vessel as much as possible ; but all was in vain, and the captain seeing that the si .aked and weary sailors could hold out nn In 'i;er, ordered them to go to rest. As I fi' ,ded the staircase, he told mo to ehari^ v wet clothes and come and take tea with iuui. On entering the cabin he came to meet me with an open book in his hand. 'See here,' said he, ' how often the words of Scripture do not suit our circumstaneeH at all. In this time of need, when all our lives are at stake, I opened the I NOTES FROM AN ARCTIC DIARY. t ^1 FEBIIAUS POSmON or IHI "INVlJiTIGAToK, ' AUQLBT 29TH, 1551. Bible to find some comfort, and tlio first words that met my eye were these, Psalm xxxiv. 3, 4 : magnify the Lord with me, and let us exult his name together. I sought the Lord, and ho heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. That suits very ill with our present situation.' 1 read aloud the second and third versos. He added, ' I know oni- position only too well.' I answered that I also had sometimes felt as if the words of Scripture stood in contradiction to experience, and yet in time they had been verified. As we wore taking our first cup of tea, a violent shock made the ship tremble. The ca]itain hastened on deck, and I followed him. The ship was floating in deep water. A mass of floe ice, driven by the current, had, by a mighty blow againsL the fore part of the vessel, forced her oft' the sandbank. "What were the feelings of us all, but especially of the captain and myself, at this moment, can- not bo described. " On the following morning the boats were imloaded and all set in order again. The captain thought of steering for Melville Island, hoping to reach the harbour in which Sir E. Parry had wintered ; but as soon as it was day, he saw the impossibility of proceeding a single mile farther. Now that it was clear, we found that we were in a bay near the western ex- tremity of Banks' Land. Melville Island was distinctly visible to the north. The ship was now anchored in a corner of the bay, near the land, and sheltered by the great sandbank from the pressure of the ice. The men were sent to recruit their exhausted powers by sleep. After twelve hours' rest, they came on deck fresh and ready for their work ; btit not now to get undir sail. The ship was already frozen in, and the raptaiii and I had walked over the new ice to the laiul. The men were assembled and addressed by the captain, who thanked them for their good behaviour and prompt fulfilment of their duty in the hour of danger ; he encou- raged them to be cheeiful and hopeful, and announced this as the place of our winter abode. He named the long sandy promon- tory, ' Point Providence,' and the bay in which we are to winter the • Bay of "^Tercy,' in grate- ful recognition of the wonderful help of the Lord." \U -iStLiVxJur:.;- yiii^M, ABKAIIAM'S GBEAT TRIAL. 201 ^,•1 ^ )on as it was day, ocecdiug a single s clear, we found the western ex- Iville Island was The shiji was ihc bay, near the it sandbank from men were sent oweis by sleep, y came on dccl; but not now to heady frozen in, alked over the Avere assembled ho thanked tliem ompt fulfilment nger ; hv encou- ui hopeful, and of our winter sandy promon- le bay in which ercy,' in grate- ful help of the THE PULPIT IN THE FAMILY. abuaham's gukat trial. " God did tempt Abmtium."— (?«!. xxii. 1. . HE wIkjIb histoiy of Abra- ham is tnily interesting, but this chapter is more so than anything else in the life of the father of the faithful, of whom it is hero said, " God did tempt Abraham." By God's tempting him, we are only to understand that God pi-oved him, or tried him ; other- wise wo shall make Scripture con- tradict itself. For it is impossible for God to tempt any being in the sense in which Satan tempts. It is infinitely removed from the Divine character to lep.d any of his creatures into the commission of sin. God in no sense whatever is tlie author of sin ; sin is from the creature entirely ; and this prin- ciple cannot sink tuo deeply into our hearts. " Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth l?o any man; but every man is tempted when ho is diawn away of his own lust, and enticed." This is a truth which it is necessary to keep before the eye of the intellect continually', for iniless it bo so conscience will not be enabled to do its duty. Tho conscience which does not fix guilt in the bosom of the intlividual iu whom it dwells, is awfully unenlightened, l^ut whether con- science condemn or not, the responsibility and guilt remain when the heart gives way to its own evil temptings. It well behoves us all, therefore, to pray that the Lord will of his mercy preserve us in piinciple as well as in practice. In asking tho reader to consider this subject, the first observation I would make i^ this, viz., that the life of faith here below is from first to last a life of temptation or trial. It is more or lees so with every believer. But the believer is net tried aluno. His God is tried and prov(^d likewiiic ; hi*) faithfulness is tried and jiroved. Abraham was exposed to much trial, yet his faith ilid not fail. A promise had been given him that ho should have a son, and many years had gone by before that promise was fulfilled ; and yet it is said of him that " against hope Le believed in hope, that ho raight become tho father of many nations ; and staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glurj' to God." Now this faith was afterwards crowned with tho expected blessing ; the pro- mise was fulfilled ; Isaac was born. He waited long, but he waited in hope ; and at length he learned in a peculiar manner tlje faithfulness of God to his promise. Isaac was boni. Perhaps we may have waited, or may have to wait, for the blessing we seek, and which it is tho de- sign of God to confer upon us; but wo must wait patiently God's j^'ood time. " In due time we shall reap, if wo faint not." But besides trials which more or less exor- cise every believer, there are seasons which may be called seasons of peculiar trial to tho Christian ; the trying hotir M'hen ho is called upon by God to surrender p> i haps all he pos- sesses of earthly goods, or it may be some object of his affections dearer to him than life itself. The cup of joy seems to be suddenly emptied, and to be replaced with bitterness and gall. He would seem to be forsaken b}' his (jiod ; his faith is severely tested, almot;t ready to fail. But in God's time the relief comes ; 'con.sola- tion is at hand ; the j^romise 6U.stains him, " 1 will never leave thee nor forsake thee." It was so with Abraham. How was he tried! How v.'as his faith as it were put into the funuice ! But God had in all this his own gracious pur- poses. " God did tempt Abraham," not simply that his own faith should be thus tested, but for the encouragement and instruction of tho church of God to tho remotest periods of time. Fiom this trial of Abmham we learn, that those on whfmi the Lord confers a strong faith are frequently called upon to prove to ofhei"s tho genuineness of the faith they possess. Such are the dealings of God with his people ; leading them by his Providence into such circumstances that they must surrender the dearest objects of their afl'ections, and " hold fast the profession of their faith," or else re- nounce their professions in him and refuse the sacrifice. TIius It was with Job, with his many sufferings ; tluis it was with the three Hebrew children, to whom it was literally " a fiery tried." So it was with 1 )aniel ; so it will be -moie or less with tho servants of God till the end comes. But in every instance we find the faithfulness of God to his promises vin- dicated, the Scriptures verified, the promise to the letter fulfilled. Oh ! what consolation to the t'liristian, in the severest of his trials, to have that promise to lean upon : " Fear not, I have redeemed thee ; I have called thee by thy name ; thou art viiuc. AVhen thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not bo bunted, neither shall the- flame kindle upon thoc. For I am the Lord thy God, tho Holy One of Israel, tliy Saviour." Further, tho severe tiials which God inflictt^ are seldom of long duration ; they are not only sent in wisdom and love, but they are abridged "^H" 202 THE VISIONS OF DANIEL. \iy the samo wisdom and the same love. Life itself is but shurt ; and when the Lord on some ftmergency calls his child to stop forward, to loud the teiiilcrost feelings of the heart, wo sec with what tenderness in his turn the Lord cornea to his relief. He only allows him to boar as nuich as is necessary to evince the rec- titude of his heart before God, for the instruc- tion and example of .those who love ant! serve him. Every trial here is preparatory for a state of glory hereafter. By it believers are led by the Spirit of God to a knowledge of their own character, and of the perfections of Jehovah. Their state hereafter will be con- nected with every discipline to which they were subjected heie below, for there is no doubt but there will be different degrees of glory in heaven. Take, for instance, the Saviour liimself in his human nature. The sufferings which he underwent when on earth enabled him to enter into the perfections of God to a dogi'ee in which they can never be known by any of his brethren. Who can ex- plain what is meant by the words, " being made perfect by suffering?" — the perfection to which his hnmanity was carried when pre- senting to tis Father a sacrifice for sinners. His bliss was pi-oportionable to the depth of his suffering, and there may be found in this tnith an analogy which may be applied to his bre- thren; as we read that *'our light afflictions which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Thoy are used as instruments in the hand of God, in teaching iis truths which are absolutely necessary to enable us to drink deep draughts of glory above. What encouragement have we then to ap- proach the Lord continually, beseeching him to give us, not only a resignation and submis- .sion to his will, but also to make us see the hand of mercy and wisdom in every affliction with which he may be pleas-^d to visit us. Thus, whatever may be the proportion of trial allotted ns here, we may be enabled to say perpotiially, " Thy will bo done ;" and thus glorifying him in our life, after death wo may be glorified with him for evei*. THE VISIONS OF DANIEL. That the kingdoms into which the lioman em- pire was divided were partly strong, even as iron, and partly and relatively weak, even as clay; and yet that they formed distinct and separate kingdoms; that some of them rank to this day among " the great powers," and others of them have no pretensions to the name ; and yet that they were distinct kingdoms, which lareserved their individuality ft-om age to age, aae truths which were shown to the prophet, in the vision of the Imago, oven as in duo season they wore known to the world. Tlie other vision of Daniel speaks with the same voice ; though it shows the division of the empire in another as sigi'.ificant and expres- sive form, and represents it too from the first as the fourth beast, which, like the rest, rose out of the sea, and ♦' had ten horns." The division of the fourth kingdom is marked by the same symbol as that wliich denoted the divis'on of the third; but each, according to the tnith, by its own respective number of horns. Four bonis oamo up for the one gieat hrrn of the rough goat ; but the fourth beast had ten in his head. The Greek cmi)ire was divided into four kingdoms; theljatin into ten. Of the fourth beast it is expressly written that it had ten horns ; and thi'ice again is the same number told of it : " The ten horns that were in his head ;" " The ten hoi-ns out of this king- dom are ten kings that shall arise." The feet and toes of the image, and the ten horns in the head of the beast, alike, in the interpretation given of both, set forth to view the divided kingdom, while that of the foimer alone makes kno%vn the truth that the kingdom was partly strong and partly broken. When the ten-homed beast is seen, the same interpreta- tion as to the significancy of the homs is re- corded, as when an angel of the Lord of the holy prophets told to the apostle John the mystery of the beast that finally goeth into perdition : " The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings," etc. These give their kingdom to the beast ; and thus it has ten homs at the last, till the words of God shall be fulfilled. In both these visions there is manifestly a continuous history throughout, even from first to last, till the days and the dominion and the very life of vnlA beasts, as the representatives of kingdoms, is at an end, and the time be come when there shall be none of them to succeed each other any more. However afar off Abra- ham saw the day of Christ, yet he was glad. The Almighty had made with him an ever- lasting covenant, and he saw the day in which not all nations merely, but all tlie families of the earth, shall be blessed. Daniel, in a far later day than that of Abraham, saw one wild beast arise after another, the second of which devoui-ed much flesh, the third had dominion given unto it, and the fourth brake the earth in pieces ; and not till the utter destruction of ita body, and the final extinction of them all, did ho record the giving of the dominion over all the earth to the Son of man, when he saw him oome with the clouds of heaven. He tells what his emotions were, and what lie sought to know. The end, like the things which were ill kl til nl "I ^1 T 01 CO nq 'wn to tbo prophet, ;o, oven as in duo tho world, ol speaks with the ^ys tho division of lifioant and expres- too fiom the firct like the rest, rose ten horns." The clom is marked hy vhich denoted the Dach, according to iectivo number of I for the one great it the fourtli beat-t Greek empire was the Latin into ten. ssly written tliat it again is the same n liorns that were IS out of this king- irise." mage, and the ten iast, alike, in the , set forth to view ;hat of tho fonner that the kingdom iroken. When the same interpreta- f the homs is re- Lord of the holy hn the mystery of perdition: "The re ten kings," etc. the beast ; and it, till the words ! is manifestly a , even from first ominion and the 3 representatives ;ho time be come them to succeed er afar off Abra- et he was glad. 1 him an ever- le day in which the families of Daniel, in a far 1, saw one wild econd of which had dominion 3rako the earth destruction of an of them all, dominion over , when he saw »ven. He tells iit ho sought to ?s which were HYMNS AND HYMN-WIUTERS. 203 fiwt U) 1)0, was matlo known tu him ; and lie kept llic matter in his heart. Not in. no chjsoly or clearly did tho golden jwrtiou t)f tho grout imngo como in contact with the .silver wliicU was next to it, or tho bilver with tlio brass, or that again with tho iron, than did tho stone — that was ctit out of tho mountain— with tho image whicli it smote, aa no pait of it had ever been smitten till then : " And tho stone that smote the image became a great niDuntain, and filled the wliole earth." Tliis i.s tlio tnie Intoipretation : " The kingdom of tho (mj(1 of heaven shall break in pieces and consume all llioso kingdoms;, and it shall stand for ever." In these two vi.slon.s tho same truths are represented; and more than doubly but not doubt ingly told. }>ot more surely did the fiecoml kingdom succeed the first, and tho third the .scconil, and the fourth the third, than the cvevhu-ting Iringdnm of tho Son of man shall succeed the fourth kinploni npon the earth; ■when onco the imago bhall bo smitten on its feet, and tho body of the fourth, wild bea.st shall be desti-oyod. Oi' them and of their kind there .shall then lie no mure ftir ever. " There was given him (tho Son of man) dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo})le, nations, and langiiage.s, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass awaj', and his kingdom that which shfill not be dostrovcd." * HYMNS AND HYMN-WETTEES. NO, VI. Among the contemporaries of the Weslcys, and oonnected with them either as followers or opponents, there wore several who have at- tained celebrity as hymn-writei-s. One of those is Enw Aun PEiiONNKr, the son of Vincent Pcronnet, vicar of 8h(jreham in Kent for more than iift}- years, and who died in JTHo, at tho age of 92. iCdward was for some time associated with the Wcsleys, but disliking tlieir Arminian tendon- oies, he was employed by Lady Huntingdon, and laboured at Canferbnry. Norwich, and other places, with considerable success. But his hostility to the church of England so grieved Lady Hiuitingdon, that he left her connection and preached to a small congi-egatiun of Dis- Bentors till his deatli. The hymn to which he owes the perpetuation of his name is the one which begins with, "All hail the power of Jesnis' JSamo," and ends every A'ersc with the words -W And crown him Lord of all." As it has Jbeen inserted in almost every collection of I * " The Hiutory and Destiny of the World and the ;|Dhurch." By the Rev. Dr. Keith. Nelson and Soue. A jtiew und important work on proplu^ic history. hymns, and often greatly altered, perhaps our readers will bo plea.sed to nee it original and nnaltered, as the author printed it in a book entitled, "OccasioniU N'erses, Mural and Social," published in 17H5 : — "All Imil the jv-avov of .Ti'.iins' nunie! Ijot unKl•l^; iirostrntc full ; lliiiig Cdrtli tlio ruvul Uiuikiii, To crown him Lord ('iull. L't lii,i;li-l)(ini boiitiihrt innc- llie lyrt, And tiH thi>y tunc it, full Brfuro hiri liwi', who tiiiif.s their choii'. And crown hitu Ijord of «11, Ci'owii liini, yc niornin;:; stars of liglit Wlio tixcil thi.s floutinf,' hull ; Now, hiiil tho Btreupfth of Isrucl's mif^ht, And crown him Lonl of ull. Grown liini, yo niurtyrn of yonr God, Who from liio ultur cull ; I-xt(d th(! «tcm of .JcsHc's r^d, And crown him Lord of nil. Yo seed of lariul's cho.scn race, Yc r:iii:-omed of tlic full, Hail him who Hives you by his grace, And crown him Lord of all. Hall him, vo licird of David 8 line, "Wiiora David Lord did cull ; The God incarnate, man divine ; And crown him Lord of nil. SinncvH, whose love can no'ir forget 'I'he wormwood and tlic Lcall, Go .sjin-ad your trophies at liis feet, Ancsley preached, tho latter, without asking his con.'-ent, pub- lished that he would preach there tho next morning at iive o'clock ; and as it was not tho time or place to make any remonstrance, ho a]>peared accordingly in the pulpit next morn- ing. After singing and prayer, ho informed tho congregation that ho appeared before them C(jntrary to his own wish ; that he had never been once asked, much less his consent gained, to pieach; that he had done vi(dence to his feelings out of respect to Mr. Wesley ; and now that he had been compelled to occupy tho place where he stood, though weak and inade- quate for the work assigned him, he would pledge himself to funiish them with tho best sermon that had ever been delivered. He then read the Lord's Sermon on tho Mount, which I I <;' 204 HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITERS. ho cnncludcil without a single word of note or (n)inmout. Mr. I'orunnct (lied at Canterbury, in .laiiuary, 1702. His dying words wore: " tilory to G!od in the hoight of his divinity; (Uory to God in the depth of his humanity; Glory to God in his all-sufBcicncy ! Into has luinJ.s, I commend my Kpirit." John Cksnick was the author of some admi- riiblo and well-known hymns. Among the best arc these : — " Tliou (lenv RedoLiner, ilyiiig Lamb, AVc love to lii'iii- of tliL'f ; No soniul no clmrniing an thy nouio. Nor half bo swctt cau be. O may wo ever huar thy voice III mercy to us speak, And ill our priest will we rejoice, Tliou great Mek'hisodec." " .Tesus, my all, to heaven is gone. He whom I fix my liopea upon ; Hia path I bcc, anil I'll pursue Tlie narrow way, till him I view. The way the holy prophets went, Tlie road that leads from banishment, The kiug'a highway of holiness I'll go, for all his paths are peace. WW*** l-o ! gliid I eomi! ; and thou, blest Ltinib, Shiilt fcike mo to thee ns I am : Novhiug but sin I thee can give, Nothing but love shall I receive. Then will I tell to siuucrs round, What a der.r Saviour I have found I'll point to thy redeeming blood. And say, Behold the way to God. For Cennick many liave claimed the author- ship of the E'jglish version of the Moravian hymn, " Jesus, thy blood and righteousness," and some of the stanzas arc more in accordance with Cennick's view of the doctrine of " im- puted righteousness " than with Wesley's view of that doctrine. The two following stfinzas are in Wesley's version, and not in the version as printed in the hynni-book used in the Countess of Hunt- ingdon's chapels : — " Lord, I believe were sinners more Than sands upon the ocean shore, Tliou hast for all a ransom paid For all a full atonement made. Jesus, be endless praise to thee, Whoso boundless mercy hath for me. For me, and all thy hands have made. An everlasting ransom paid." The two foUoAving verses are in Lady Ihmt- ingdon's collection, and not in the Methodist hymn-book : — " This spotless robe the same appears, When ruined nature sinks in years ; No Qge can change its glorious hue, The grace of Gliriat is ever new. O let the dead now hear thy voice. Now bid thy banished ones rejoice, Their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesis the Loud our riohteousxess." Wesley in his version dwelt more on the .j tent of the atonement, Cennick on the nahi; of the righteousness of C'hrist. This hymn, we may here remark, was u gic, favourite with Rowland Hill ; and when tl, mortal remains of that noble itinerant ai, warm-hearted evangelist were being luwcix> into their final resting-place under his ow pulpit, in the presence of thousands, bathed i; tears, a stanza of this hymn, common to bu;' versions, was sung in solemn tones : — " When from the dust of death I rise. To claim my mansion in the skies. Even then shall this l>e all my plea, Jesus hath lived and died for me." Cennick also was the author of this hymn :- " Children of the heaveidy king. As ye journey, sweetly sing ; Sing your Saviour's worthy praise, Glorious in his works and ways. Ye are travelling home to God, In the way the fathers trode ; They are happy now, and ye 8oon their happinces shall sec. * * * * 1* Lord, obediently we'll go, Gladly leaving all below ; Only Thou our leader be. Ami we still will follow thee. Shout, ye little flock, and blest You on Jesus' throne shall rest ; There your seat is now prepared ; There your kingdom atid reward." Cennick's spiritual history is interesting. Ho was born at Reading, about the year 171", and brought up in the church of England From the age of fifteen, he was fond of card play- ing, novels, plays, and the like, till one day ("to use his own words) " while walking hastily in Cheapfc-.ldc, the hand of the Lord touched v I felt at once an uncommon fear and dejection. He had often been in bitterness through tlie strength of convictions and the fear of hell, but never before knew any weight like that. " Tin: terrors of the Lord came about him, and the pains of hell took hold upon him." This state of mind continued for two years. He tried the usual legal methods for peace ; he fasted long and often, was much in prayer, with deeds ol mortification and self-denial, till he took home to his heart the words of Jesus, " I am thy salvation." He was filled with joy in the assurance that Christ loved him, and died for him. Some time after this, he became ac- quainted with Whitefield, his heart having been knit to him through reading one of hi.s works. Ho preached among the Methodists: and when Wesley and Whitefield separated, ho clave to Whitefield, whom he assisted in the erection of a new chapel at Kingswood, Bristol. In 1745, he joined the Moravians, and remained among them till his death, in July, 1755. l\ ol safe-f Hi m HYMNS AND IIYAIN-WIIITEES. welt more on the ,.j 'onnickou the ,!„/„ lirist. JO rcmurk, wan a y;vt "ill; and when tl uoblo itinerant i.i, wore being Idwou, 5laco under his ^w, thousands, bathed i; '»m, comiuou to hj iiiiu tones : — fdcathlriMo, i» the skies, ;" nil my pleu, lied for mo." thorofthis hymu:-. ily King, sing ; •rtliy praiijo, ind wiiyn. to God, trodc ; nd ye mil see. • * ?o, iv; >e. thee, id blest lall rest ; prepared ; J reward." till' ^ly 18 interest i..„, out the year 17 J 7, hurch of England, isfondofcard2>lav- ike, till one day (tj walking hastily in Lord touched i> car and dejection, i-ness through tlju ho fear of hell, bm t like that. " Tlic •out him, and the h»«." This state ars. He tried the '; he fasted Ion;; 51-, with deeds assisted in the igswood, Bristol. 18, and remained "l3% 1756. Hew well (lUiilifiod by bis own e.Kperionco dilinick was to bo a useful guide to distressed souls, wo liiivo a pleasing instance recorded bv Mr. L;v Trobo. A friend of his wan riding •long the .higli road, in au uninhabited part oi' Ireland, wii'u ho was ovoi-takon by a traveller on hor.soback, who oHered him his company. There Wivs something in the features and gene- ral heaving i>i Mr. J^a Trobo's friend which made him often bo mistaken for a Popish priest, and so it happened on this occasion. As ho did not directly announce the contrary, the stranger said, "Will you, sir, accept my con- fesBion ? 1 have travelled f(jr many weeks up and down the country, and have never once confessed ; and as I am conscious of many and great tiansgressions for which I desire absolu- tion, I am very imhappy without it." Ho then enumerated many serious oifences, expressing an earnest desire of forgiveness. The supposed ?riest gave no answer, but groaned heavily, 'ho poor penitent was frightened; and repeat- ing his suit, profcs.sed his willingness to submit to any penance the priest might proscribe, however severe, that he might free his consci- ence from so intolerable a burden. After leav- ing him some time in suspense, and perceiving that he seemed truly in earnest. La Trobo's friend addressed him thus : " As we are hero jJone, and without danger of being botrayed, I may .speak freely and honestly to you, as to a fenjly penitent sinner. Your sins are grievous, and the wounds inflicted on j'our conscience incurable by man's device." He then entered into detail, and showed that in some of the sins confessed, thero were many circumstances of aggravation. This alarmed the penitent ex- ceedingly ; and the other proceeded. " You offer, sir, to submit to any penance which holy mother church prescribes ; but as an honest man, 1 must ii\forra you that I know no penance whatever, the merit of which will meet your case. But it appears to mo to be with thu soul as with the body. I have known sick persons, who had the advantage of the best advice and prescriptions of the most able ■physicians, and who had at last been pro- nounced incurable, completely restored by the nostrums of a quack doctor to whom they had been prevailed upon to apply. The same may happen in spiritual concerns. The clergy are the authorized prescribers of the means of '.* spiritual relief, but these means'^ may often fail, i|?nnd Avill certainly fail in your case. Now theie are spiritual quacks as well as medical ones, and I have known their advice taken and rendered available, when all regular means ^have failed to give comfort to a burdened mind. f You may try what the priesthood can do for I you, but if the penances prescribed fail of effect 205 (su'.posing you to bo sincere in seeking re- lief), I can roconmiend you to one who is considered a very skilful quack, and of whom 1 have heard wonderful instances of his ha\in<'' alforded relief to many. His name is (,'onniek° and he is to bo met with in Skinner's Allev Dublin." ^ Here the two travellers parted, and the peni- tent proceeded to Dublin, where ho followed the advice given him, and, seeking Jesus as a heavy laden sinner, found rest for his soul. He connected himself with the Moravians, and some years afterwards, the assumed priest, hav- ing himself become truly converted, mot his fellow traveller in Dublin, as members of the same church. Tiio.MAs Olivkrs, was the author of two very sublime hymns : — " Lo! ho comes, with clouds descDiding, Oiico for fuvoured slniiors sluin ; Thousand, tlioiisund siiiiits iitt'Miding, Swell the triiunjili of I, in train. Hallelujidi! Jesus KhuU fur ever rci!,Mi. Every eye slmll now behold him, Reb:'d ill dreadful nitijesty ; Those who set at nought and »old iiim, Pierced and nailed him to the tree, Deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see." The tune to which these words are sung was also the composition of (Jlivers. Equally well known, and as deservedly admired, is the grand hymn thus commencing : — " Tlio God of Abraham praise. Who ivigns entiironed alx)vc ; Ancient of everlasting days, And God of luve. Jeliovah ! great I am, By earth and heaven confessed ; I bow and bless the sacred name, For ever blessed." ♦ ♦ » Thoiaas Olivers was a native of Tregouan, in Montgoraeryahiro. He wa.s born in 1725, and oiginally a shoemaker, but of very profligate conduct. One night, ho met a multitude of pec«ple, and found they had been to hear White- field, Two evenings afterwards, he also went to hear him, and the sermon was the means of stopping him in his downward course. Hu afterwards joined the Methodists, who appear to have held him in high estimation. Fletcher of Madeley says of him, " His talents as a Avriter, a logician, a poet, and a composer of sacred music, are knoAvn to thoce who have looked into his compositions;" and the Con- ference, after his death, paid hira the tribute of saying : " In his younger days, ho was a zeal- ous, able, and useful travelling preacher. Ho will he held in honour by the Christian world, almost solely for his two hymns, ' Lo ! he comes with clouds descending,' and ' The God of Abraham praise.' " 20G WIDOW DAKliSJUE AND WIDOW BULGIITSIDE. yngt flit tjie -^^011115. Luoui'h for nu', ami thin will WIDOW DAHKSIDK AND WIDOW BKIGIITglDK. CIIAl'Ti:!'. IV. •' OoMK ill, lovo you m time, and ynu mii.t p tl it you may help l'> make her happy in llii 1 her tiii' loneliness and widowhoinl." ' people so idow Urigl and she un.swered, " Perhaps tluy will grow mure ui after a time." I put ofV going to Widow Darksido's for some il:i but then mamma made a bargain tiiat I shoidd visit : juht Its often as I ilid my dear old friend, so I did ; neglect her after that. Many times did I spi ml an 1. with that gloomy-tempered (dd laily, and 1 alway i ; tiio same tale ti"> tell. I began to dosiiair of doiinr :, any gooi> *:o run down her tiice. She '. really grown fond of • , though unfortunately she 1; fomiil her comfort in having a littlo girl to talk ; instead of telling Jesus all her sorrow, and asking him uiiiko lier contented and happy. I burst into tears I , for I felt as though I waa behaving unkindly to tho jn , cross, old kdy, and I told her all that was in my mi. How sorry I had been to see her dull and lonely, 1 how I had hopi d to bo a little comfort to her ; but 11 at last I thought I was none, for she did not seem to any luppier, or to like to hear any beautiful words out my diar Bible. And then I did what I never did bel'. — I threw my arms round her neck and ki,ssed her clu all wet with tears, and .snid, "Oh, do try and love !. iSaviour, and ho will bo .sure to make you happy." I knew that Widow Darksido hail never seemed liko her neighbour much ; but after that afternoon : let mo talk iilxjut her and her ways, though I thin!, was only because she was my friend. And sho 111 v went to sleep after that when I was reading tho Bil.'l . which, mamma said, " was a great step gained." I cannot tell you every little thing, Imt I must say tl,;' by degrees my other old friend learned not only to Ik-i' to tho word of God, but to lovo it and tiiid comfort iu :.. whenever sho was inclined to bo sad at thought of t' 1 riches sho had lost. After a time, sho and Wil. v, Brightjide beeame dear friends, and much more alii.', and they always said it was through mc, under Ood, they wore brought to know each other, and worship the I-i'iil together. As for me, I waa ver\- thankful tliat I should have been u.sed in any way for good. There is just one thing more I want to say, and that i=, that in timo Widow Darkside 's houso became jutt iis bright as her neighbour's ; and mamma said, " Tho reaPvii of that, Annie, ia that no house can be gloomy if the Sim of Rightcousucis is known, aiid eluues therein, and ito inmates possess that 'peace of God which passeth ;ill undcriitanding.' " ii! Viili)\v Diirl;«i(lc( to ;iiiii, Aiiiiio. Sli.. ^ (', mill yipii ijiii, t , W '!» I'lii.i li(r iM, , f two ncoplt) so iiiil, 111 Willow Hrij,'lil, mid I iilwiiy.s 1. dospiiir of doiii;; 1, liiit, " unless I \W»|', ■iait." I wiiM tin d ol' n-iML leitlioi- (o uiidirKi,. ■ 110 coinlurt IVoiii o sho wiia not ..o r inaninia siiiil, •• \ do not ratan to \ iniu'li liko tliiy, diizinj,' in Ja-r ;;. f niy precious li 'I (ruaiblin;^ voi( Widow Dmkbid. ,' >r I iiiu not coi.;' )n f,'oi)ig away ;., ; ill I do without voi;, it-n ust'd to t.ll"v. t ,|M'iM il Sunday cvetiiiiL,' .-vi'vii'iH in llio ini trojiolis <• luid I'O Raid to have been coniplot'ly rcsuincd. Til Wi'stMiin.-idr Abht y and I'ltctcr Hall tliiy re- r imiiu iici d on the flrrit Sundny of the luw viar, and rtoini.' wi( kn previou.sly, vaiioiis iiiinor thcatrci had bivn cpoiiod on I-nrii'i-day i vcaiii^jii for l!io ))id('l!inia1ion of tlicOoMpil. fiul lla- nutropMliian cathedral was closed until the la.sl Sunday in Jiuiuary, in order to comphU' tlie extaiNivp all' i- aliiais wli'iili wiTo n^ndin d in c(!*r Ilia n^v of HO lar;;o n eon^rfi^Htion an now ri'i;ularly a-i^ mli!>s beiu.'ath if»i capacious doinc. Thrsc alt latioim inclndo thi> rcnioviil of tho screen s.'paratin^; the choir from tho n »f of the cathe- dral, the rrcction of a now and h(s than tli;it of (he famous "Tracts fir the Times," if, in.lii.j, til it i.otorirty bo nut already nbtaincd. The es.savs ,u-e 'f various degrees of demerit, but they all • tend to one result — the rijection of the word of Ood as an nui-rring ; iid Divine revelation, and of tin' dist'netivo doetrines -l tlie Chrii.tian faith. TI.e gravity of tlio crisis is fully appneiated by those wh.nin it iiiost con- ' cerus. The ch r';y of tlie archdeacoiny of Ivondon have met, and agree(l to iireseiit nn address upon the subject to th(ar bishoj). Similar nioveineiits have taken place in various olher parts of the country. Th»j Uishop of Durham Dr. Villier.si, reiilying to an address from tho arciuKiaconry of I.indijifarne, writes: "I am not sur- .'*! pris(Ml that tho hearts of honest and faith.fnl churclimen ■■'■^ should burn with indignation at finding such a publica- ?w tion should have emanated from mon professing to be .'>* ministers of i.jr Church. ... A more hotorodo.x volnrao ;- could scarcely havo been produwd." But the moat Im- •f? portnnt declamtion is that elicitcil by a memorial to tho Archbishop of Cunterburj-, from the diocese of Oxford. The archbishop slufes that his (jiiscopal brethnn unanimou.sly agrei; with him in expressing tli(« pain it ha.s givrii till 111 that any clergyiiian of tlie Cliurch of Kugland should have piiblishi d such opiniouH as those in ipicstiou. "We cannot understand," continnes lii.j Orace, " how these opinions can be h
of tho Knglish bishops apni nd their names. It is scarcely possible to ovt rrate the impori- ancc of a testimony so unanimous on Ixhalf of sound doctrine, by our highest eeclcitiastical liignitaries. ;\s to the subatanco of the < ssnys, (here is little in till m Ix-yond a repetition of souio of tlii> oftenlations of tho worst si.'luxd of tho modern (Jirman Rationalist-. In some of the essays there is much obscurity and vi r- bi:u^e, but (ho main assertions will appiar colitemptiblo not only to tliu student of Pah y ami ijiithr, and other writiTs on tho evidences of religion, but to iverv intelligent reader of tho I!ible. For i Xiimple, it l, a.ssirtiMl that the Old Testament piophrci(B aro not divinely inspired pn ilictions, but mere historieal itati - inent.s of local and nationid i vents. Even tho tift\ - third chapter of Isaiah is inuintAine;ii. HrVfiiil Hiiciitir^<, wliirli liiivi' tin if liMiil-inmitirs iit ftciU'Vii, iJiiil tliiir .s]ilii In of iictivity in Kniiico. At ii inrt'tiiii; of one of tlirsi' — llif Sorioty for fScutliriil I'ro- tintiiiits — nil i tirialiii^,' iii'iduiil wuH (iivrii liy 51. Mir- I'luiiiil, II tla'iilo'.^ii'iil Ntuili'iit, of IV tour of cvuii^'i'li/itlion ill till) Ili^li Alii.-i. Tho (li.-4ti'i('t vi^iti il liy liiiii was tliiit iMii.si I'liitdl liy tlic liiliour.sof I'Vlix N't If. lie foiiiul tliitt lliu fi rviiit ixiiortatioii.s of Hint tUvotcil Hrrviiiit of Ood I'.ad not bi'i'ii furi,'ottiii liy these i-inipie nmuntiiiiiii is. In tho more |iopiiloU3 di»ti'i(.'t:4 of Fnuicc, tlui ivini- gi.'liual .soc'iitica ant jiroai'i'utiii^ Huir lalmms witii tluir woiiti d \ ijj'oiii'. Tlio Cuiitiul rrolutitiint Sociity Ims Hivunly, till' (I'ari!*, KvungcliLid Soeiily clKlity, nil.-t.iion- arito iic'tivrly (.iiijiloyL'd. 'J'lio Evuiij^ulical JSocicty of (ifUivii jia.s also lid liihonrcis tmversing thoso jmita of I'laiifo adjaci'iit to Switzerland. Tlio niseii.iwioiis on tiie I'lipal (jue.stion eontiiine, iiad oiu immpldet after nnother reveula tin; extent to \\liieh |iulilie opinion is alienated from the IConiish Chnreli, Tiiiii nuial tell ill favour of I'rote.-ituidiMni ; Imt it is not deemed likely lliat tile iirojeut of ii French imtriaruhate, aij a muins of withdrawing tlui Enipiiu from tho sway of the I'aiiaey, will iirovc a reality. ^Meanwhile, the I'opu does wliat he eaii to iirovuke the Emperor. We leiini that I'iiis ix. 1ms expressed jiis convielioii that all tho misfortunes that have happened to him and his friends are the work of Eni,'laiid. llo i.s also reported as lieiiig far froni pleaded that tho Enjjlish Ilomaii Catliolie.s do not open their purses as ho thinks they oii"j;ht to do. ill euiitinuing to ally himself to the eausi! of nhsoluli.-'iii, In,' daily renders tho I'lijiaey more dis- ti;i:liliil to the thiiikiiii; portion of tho people of Italy. Tliu liihle and I'lotestunt literaturo thus obtain, to .omo extent, a prepared soil for their ree-eption. In little more than u month, upwards of three thousand eopii s ol thu Sierijitiires have been sold in Naples alone. !Straiif;;e (o say, in Uomo the Jews have been eireulating tlio N'lV 'IVstanieut as a means of .strikinj:!; a deadly Mow at the Pope's temporal power. The IteV. 1{. 11. lleiseliell, who has lately returned from n visit to Italy, had tliu jileusure, when at Floronco, of bringing all tho leaders of the dilleront seetions of Italian Proto.stiinta together in a soeial gathering, at which they met in tile most Irieiidly way, and ported with mutual good- will. From Spain wc have intelligcnco that Manual Jlata- nioros, tho Protestant prisoner for conseionce' sake, having been furnished with pecuniary aid from this country, hud been able to securo a passage in a steamer from Barcelona to IMulaga, and thus to avoid the long and toilsome jonniey, in chains, by land, which might have cost him his life. His constancy remains unshaken ; and wo learn fidiu his letters that the converts continue to increaso. Addressing Alonzo, the yonng priest whose eonver.siou occasioned tho persecution, ho writes : " lio- joice, brother, for since the day of my imprisonment the eiitliusia.Tm in JIalaga has increased. . . . Thirty-seven new converts havo been added to the church, and tho Siiirit of grace is every day more comforting and more ileeply rooted in tho hearts of that Christian band. Many prayers ascend daily for tho deliverance of our eliuieli, iiow so liercely jiersecuted by these enomics of (Jhii-tt. They are bringing an action against them and nie in Jliilaga, at the present time, and notwithstanding, this only serves to increaso our inimbers, and to inspire US with now courage. Yes, dear brother, my phyaicul forces are sinking rapiiUy; my weak flesh fails me, and the thread of life ajipenrs nearly spun ont. The damp- nesi of tlicHo prisonH is killing me ; but, dear lirother, i Vi i stip I take towards the tomb enablew me better to an:, cipate my Inst honr with rejoieini^, and with a pciici' i wa.^ a neVfi et slrniigi r to until I found Christ." In tl . strain lie proceeds, and informs his frli'iid that his I'u i i.s "a little foeiis of go.spcl light," that three of I fellow-prisoilers have become converts to the I'liilh, n^ that he holds their protests. Of Matanioms' tVll.iH sulbrern, we h arn that Alhama continues, like liiiii.-< i' ill custody, but that Umnero, Vasijuez, and Lineiro, Imv been liberatiMl on bail. A letter from Constantinople states that tho Diil^'v riaiis have been demanding from tliu Porto a full sip.. ration from tho (ireik patriarch, and a seiiaratu <■, ginizatioii of their own, and that a very high degree i , excitement now jirevails among them because |l:ir request has been negatived. A few hiiTO gone over t' the t'.iiiiisli Church, but the majority stand tirm, and aii determined to gain their rights. JIany largo bodies them, including ecclesiastics, declare that if their p' i;. tioii Imj not granteil, they will become Protestants. Amid tho painful scenes which abound in Syria, t!. mind experiences a feeling of no littlo relief in coiiti )i.- jilating the work being carriid on by tho Qeniini! deacoiies.ses. Tlirso devoted women have been ili>- patched thitlu r by Ur. Fliedner, tho director of tl.' Deacones.ses Institution at Kaiserwerth. Tluy laliDi.i in concert with thu missionaries and medical men, an I firovo most invaluable auxiliaries to both. Thr<'o nsy- urns havo been already established by them at IJeyroiit one for orphans, another for destitnte girls above four- teen, whoso position, perilous at any time, is reiiderui still more so at this moment by tho presence of an im- moral soldiery, and a third for widows. Ilesides tKi manngemcnt of these institutions, they steadily pur.-::, their hospital work at IVyrout and other parts of Syiii At Sidon a suitable house has been taken for a hospitnl. where some of tho ten deaconesst s there stationed wi! Ik) thus wholly engaged. The Roman Catholic sisters i ; mercy are also displaying great activity. Three orplm;; asylums are about to be erected in Bt^yrout by the Ii"- manists. Tho Protestant Deaeoncasos' Orphanage, :i; present occupying temporary premises, is to bo hicati '1 in an edilico built for the purpose. The accounts from all parts of India exhibit cliceriii. pro.specta of usefulness. In the northern provinces, i .-- peeially iiHlicted by the recent war, thu change in relutior; to Christianity is most marked. Gopee Natli Nundy, tin native teacher, a narrative of whoso trying ordeal in tli' mutiny appeared at the time of its occnrrenco in tl,- " Sunday at Home," nports succes.sfnl labours, li. Tinucvelly there are indications jf zoal for tho convti- sion of tho surrounding heathen, combined with tin adoption of jilans of practical usefulness, which reiul- like what is occurring in England rather than what wi should expect in India. Several important outposts have liocn secured fi missionary work in China, of tho operations from whicl. we hope to give favourablo report beforo long. From Wi.'stern Africa we hear that tho vessels intendt" to form the missionary expedition up tho Niger had been waiting for three months for the promised gunboat whicl; was to accompany them, conveying a British consul iv negotiate with tho native tnbes. Tho gunboat, howeviv had not arrayed ; tho fall of tho rivur had set in, and tl.i ascent was now dangi'rous. Tho consequent delay of a year had sadly disappointed tho soveral emigrant nativc- from Sierra Leone, who had sold their houses and property there, in order to settle on tho Nigor. The Rev. Snniiul Crowther, who communicates this information to tlu' Church Missionary Society, proposes the establishment of a prefatory mission at the Nun (one of the mouths ni thu Niger), for which he had sought and found a healthy pliico. a:. lilt; lMtt(.r to lUitl. Ill with II jMiii'i. I ICIiri.st." lull,. I<;liiii ler parts of Syriii ikeii for a bospitiil. lero stationed wi! Catlioliu si.sters (•; y. Tliree ui-phu:; lyrout by the Itn- js' OrphaniiKe, a; , ia to bu locati'l exhibit cliceriiii: ■ni provinees, e.v chan^o in relation Natl I Nundy, tin ing ordeal in th' eiirri-UL'O in (!• 4'iil labours. I: 1 for tho eonvti- lubincd with tin leas, which rem!- icr than what wi )oci» acenrcd t'l " itions from wiiicl. long. vessels intendti! Niger had been d gnnbont whiel; British consul to uiiboat, however [id set in, and tLi qucnt delay of :i emigrant native? uses and property riie Rev. Saiiiiui brmation to tiif le establishment uf the mouths et found healthy \l:: t-. J K V' M* Kfic [)^^ THIJ SUNDAY AT HOME: '^M"j-^.' - .JLi. .', — -J LNEXrRCTHD DF.UVBKANL'K. NOTES FROM AN AKCTIO DIAliY. Again Iho " Investigator" was roofed in and snow-walled, llie school was it;commencod, and ovcrvtliing arranged as in tho previous winter. At first, appoarancos were I'uvonrable, only two men wore on tho sick-list, suffering from rheumatism, but an examination of tho ship's ftonss in October resulted in the reduction of ^e rations to two-thirds of tho usual quantity. On December tlio 6th, tho captain announced to the crew that ho should now give up evcry- ijjing but the endeavour to reach England No. 362.— I'DDllSllKD Al-RIL 4, 1861. by the most direct way; Iho search for tho lost Franklin expedition must bo abandoned on accoiuit of tho Avant of provisions ; besides it was impossible that Franklin and his com- panions, provisioned for on!}- three years, could liavo subsisted in the ice for six. To this was added that, in consequence of so much more of the preserA'cd meat being .spoiled, it was neces- saiy to reduce tlio rations to half. The latter piec^o of intelligence was as depressing as tho former was cheering. Tho winter was very severe, and far moro dreary than tho previous one. " As our stock of candles," says Mr. Miertsohing, " is very I'RICt OKK PBMNTi 210 NOTES FROM AN AKCTIC 1)1 AUY. I II Bmall, ihat also must bo cconomiztMl, and vro thcicroro pass a {'"rL-at ]iart of our time in .\:ilhor was to be found. Still they wore not (piito Avithout news in iheir iso- lation from tho rest of the wmld; tho captain found a box containing the infcjj'nialion tlut in ls.-)0, soven English and two Ameiioan ships had sailed through Lancasier Sound ; th^iL ( 'aplain Austin, with his four ships, " Kcsolute," •' Inlrepid," •' Assistance." and " i'ionoer," had been lYozt-n in by (iriflitirh Islands. In tho spring of ]85l, a sledge party from tho •' lio- siduto" he.d visited Winter Ifarlxmr and ^eft this intelligoneo. "W lethor (he.e ships re- turned to Kngland, or m\:to still fixed in the ice, was unknown. All hope of ;,-d from Iho east now viinished. Tlithorto tho general health Lad boon g-uxl, though all wero grosving weaker, and insuf- ficient food, damp, cold weather, and tho gloomy prospect of Iho future, began to iell upon nil. Fvi>n tho briglit suns:hiiio at iho boginuing of Jinie ciuiKed no iinpruviMrjont. Tho fcgs so.m rt (uuud, and all were fojbidden to go hunting, partly on accoimt of tho da.-goi ! Ono allovjaling eii- of being lost, and partly because Vr() game l;;!.i almost all disaj poared. i-jlili Jh.e " jnvcstiga'orci" did not dv.-o i-, Thoy had discovered a second north-u'est j .sago, and hoped to sail vhiongli it tlitt } Summer was coming, ^\hen tho run sli, i . black, hairy eatorpillars were m "U eiawlir on tho nijss, and as si>on as tlio grtJinul \', . free from snow, little white and yellow How. ajipcared in. full bloom, eoniing lieforo tlii. leaves; a rivuh't enlivened tho dreary sih ir landscap(! wiih the pla.'-bing of its litilo wa'. • falls; and ono day several coloured buttcrlli'- were caught. But the sea showed no ehanv;. Day after day, anxious eyes gazcd over i: frozen surtt\co fri/m tho sunumt of the nearc- hill, ami every day tho waichers returiiod ' the ship with tho same intelligeneo — " ? UMvemont in tho ice!" cumstanco must not bo omitted Mr. 3IierfM'liIng, in his lonely wandering ■ found a sin (1! plant which ho rycognlsed as , s['Ceiet) of soriel, and which tlo doctov.s p' nonfood an excellent remedy for the soitivy, an4 a yalriahlo })regorvati> c' ?ov tho;iO not \\ aftW'tod by that disease. Several in.heio a hou.^-e would be t'-uiu) an;! abumlanec of food aiid clotliing. Ono could sen many dismal i'aoes, but tljoro was nothing >o 1 r done but to yiold to necessity." The docto/H feare of ihis 'cfbiction, all being already so mncli enfeebled, 'J'wo luid lost their revvon, nmi these unhappy one.<^ added to tho 'li^tress ol tlieir compmin-ns hy raving uigb' and ih\y. There woro evident signs ol discontent «niong tho sailors, and after alvout six wcidc* fb.'V assembled on dec!; one day, and desired through ofl en inWf«WBW*«<«'"0'"* i.'aptaiu 6 •;.' Id liuiUl Jio -w ••: d Jiot bii;;tk ■ ; ]>\ss aiioil. : not to let till ;• idfiico to tiii, -, W'c ..-oro ; ;ii 1 1 soitmon, w',n ^Hiago and tu lad mow fi,r ,i iiMiid rations aeon pn seivi ! to ll\;.lso till' n-, it would 1m waiici' a lifli. the poiiod < •' 10 would .'e;;>i ^'S, OtiO to !l!' hl'l" to l\»: he t'nuiu! an! One conld s' n iiuthirig >o It consoqiioii'.'i s iidy fn.iuit.ir,g thenj ii little more. 'i'lu- ( .')i- lellow-, I'ni'ived a good dinner, (.>t;ro- ber 2oth, tlu' fjecond annirtTsary v^ their di.s- etwrerv of a north Me.»t pfctf»>f..!go. A spirit id' ohturfnlni ^^. showed itself ;hrough"iit (ho idiip. " ^very one had for onee hiid enough to eat. I Jii\vi> often in lah:A.«(ir had the opportunity of »k o.'c .shot in duly; Ihif- he now ]troduced as i-oat-tdjeef. wlueh v.'fts greeted with unhonnded delight 'j'he sailors adoniedr'^.' low.'r doek wiih (!ng;j, and pii'Tun h drawn ami painted b^ thenmelve;. repre.-eTting their varic u*; adventun'S by land and ^ea ; even the ]>lnui-jHiddings were decm-.ited wilh liitlo silk tiags. The eaptain and otueerB were invited as u;ual to Ree all this giandenr, and a sailor in a faiieifn! '' -tuine , d>lie.el srrat^fj^ j m we ouglo for the gni."iouH and wu'idronw ' hei]> of the Lord! It h i.s been a hxigand beavy > year for u^s, but (jiod hat* prt'«erv( d our henllh. { mine eh'peeially, and *-vi e ni the mo-t tronV»i<>n.-t tinh;s gi^ en tue many blewsed lio-irH of bin graee ami pienenoo. He ha.s turned the lioarts i Qf my ^oiptnati?:-, ko that they lend a willinjjf i QUI to my feeble wordn, .spoken i'.>r tlio good ni' their soutu, and i!iey testify liv their (-ondnnt th'H they kno\v- and aeknowledtfe Hoiiietlnag ■ higher rt; d Intter thuo the ciuiiij;ui;_-. tiN>ubl«*d , Jife i)f earth. I ku w tlmt it is of tli« !i<>rdb a'W^'iii, not mine, that 1 atn here ; tJti.s ettwiMnoui*- ' ■pBe.'sii has nuslained ni> ofi«n ^itikiilL them uiieh During many dayti no one coidd leave tlie ship, and even under the canvas-roofed deck, wrapped in tho Nvainie.st ch'thing and running to and fro, it wa.i impoMsibie t>i remain nioro than half an hour at a time. Mr. Miertsehing suf- fered more than a fortniglU with violent tooth- jtehe, and !i. s^ailor coming iu s;titT with cold ftdl down the staircase and broke hi.s arm. The poor luiialies htili raved almo.st inee.ssantly, ami the reports of the general health beeamu more and more nnfavonrable. In Febr)iary wu read ; " The .sun has returned, but tho Ktato of the crew in Ktill uioro Had. Ibiw heavily must all this adverisity pre.-.s upon om- worthy eaptain ! May ll:o I.unl give him enduring courage!" Tho iMdu.-.trion,s Moravian woems to have been prejtarod to take up any handicraft that camo in his way. " Tlie ar- mourer is ill, .Tnd though I have never before taken hi.-i piaeo, I have dune .so now, and am niaking tin drinking vessels for those of uh who are to depart in the s))n"ng. The monthly e.v- a)uin:itii.ii of the crew ])rove:-i ihat not one of them in any longer tit for hard woik. It is a gloouiv prospect for n.s who in six weeks, wilh the feeblest of them, must yidso our.selveH to the heavily laden ."-^ledges and dsag tliem hun- dredn fd' milef over ice and snow. Jiut it is best to take courage and tru.si i:< the Lord. I will rather rejoice in my Jong j.>unu)y than look forward wi'ii an.siety ami tear." On tho Mrd of March the eaptain made known IrTN intentio-iH. Th.> ntocdc of provisions for all cttrld only last till November; ho would there- hnv semi away so many that tho.se who re- mained might have enough till the spring, in eitso tJne s)np could not get out of the ice this year. Lieut. Cres-swell, Mr. Mior.\-ehirig, and si.x saihiis, were to y'ro> p « W ) i and isont f.nt to meet tho '• InveK- lig!\t(>r" r^'xt spring. 'i'he other company, jouKiMf.iug < f four rflioers, including theaissistaiii; Ktii-geon, and twpnty-Kix miloiH, war to go to I'ort r>oi>p')id, fivn hundred milefi distant, whei-» a LousM ha!e in my breast, for, taking tho people for Esquimaux, 1 thought. Wherever these came, wo can go. It was twenty-one long months since wo had seen any men but ourselves, and as wo approaclicd tho strangers our hearts throbbed violently. I c(iuld not utter a word. 'Ihen an I^nglish voice called to us : ' 1 am Lieut. I'ym, of tho ship " Rt. solute," Captain Kellet, in Winter Ihuk)ur!' What tidings! I thought I was droiiming; tho joy, tho rapttire almost stupified mo. Hut it was no dream. Tho aid, tho rescue is reality," On board the ship this unhopod-for delivor- anco caused no less joy. Tho sick, forgotting their sufl'erings, sprang from thoir beds, and in a few minutos all were assembled on ded; '' Wo learned from Lieut. Tym that in is:,. five ships were sent out under tho connuand < i Sir Edward Belcher. Th^ ' Assistance ' aii ' rioneev' were commanded by Sir Edward ii person, tho ' Resolute ' and ' Intrepid ' Ic Captain Kellet, tho same whom wo had met ii Uehring's Strait. The fifth ship, the * Nortl Star,' was anchored at Cape Riley, to remair as a depot ship for the others. At Capo Rili tho ships parted 'jompany, Sir Edward Relclii sjiiling up Wellington Channel, in search c Sir John Franklin, and Captain Kellet towiiir,- Melvillo Island, where ho took u]) his fii> winter quarters by Dealy Island. The t-aiiv autumn uo sent out several companions to ex- plore tho coast and deposit stores of provisii ;, in readiness for others wluj v/ere to bo sent iii north and Avest in the spring. One of tliL>. parties found the intelligence left liy ei; captain on Melville Island, and returned witi it immediately. Tho winter was too near i send to the Ray of Mercy ther , but on tho l".'t of Marcii, 1H,5;5, Captain Kellet despatcli' liicut. Pym with a chosen party of men to seiK tho ' Investigator;' and after a cold and toi! Komo journey of twenty-eight days, ho hai found us and made us glad. Many and heart- fult were tho thanlcsgivingH that ascended t tho throne of grace." twrific from c( erous i has no tho eai this lit noble of the gatherc not gre tudo, 01 in a b ♦ Rock their wo an their onr vo fore fa tl to thoii liberty them, mout t the at may n receive THE PILGRIM FATHERS. " Aye, call it hoi}' griiuiid 'rfu! Hoil wlirro first tlioy troil : 'JMiey have loft uiibtniiieil whiit there they fouml— l''r(.'cdom to worship CJod !" Mi:s. IIkmans. Tn' America tho memory of the Pilgrim Father- is kept over fresh. Year by year there ai festivals, in celebration t)f tho landing of tli emigrants frtuu tho " ^layfiower," in search " tho freedom of worship which they were denit I in tho Old World. Tlio monumental memoria at New I'lymouth is said to require 40,000/. fii its completion. Somo years ago it was pro- jiosed that an English memorial of tho saim.- event, on a much liumbler scale, should In erected in Southwark, many of tho ministoi> and people of which wore early confessors and martyrs in tho causo of leligious toleration. Tho American minister, tho lato lion. Abbott Lawrence, warmly entered into tho proposal. and bore a noblo testimony to tho memory of tho Pilgrim Fathers of New England. " In common with most of my countrymen. I entertain tho most profound and sincere reverence for tho mejuory of tho baud of heroic Christians, who, in tho face, in the Old World, of Dogleot and opproesion, and in tho New, of .^1 TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. !13 ulikd til) (led; I that in is.",. ho commuiul 1 1 LHsistancc ' an i Sir Ed ward ii ' intrepid ' l,v wo had met ii ip, the < ^orii iley, to rciiwii At Capo m\v: idward Belchf' I, in seaicli r Kellet tow;m:- k U]) his fiiy id. The earn. ipanions to ex. •s of provisin!. B to bo sent llr One of tliLM I left liy nil retmiied witi. '•as too near t mt on tho hn. let despatcli' ; (jf nion to .sei K cold and toii days, ho liai iny and hcan- it ascended t- HERS. TO thiy founti— IIi:mans. ilgrim Fallui- •car ihoro ;ii landing of tli ," in .search n ey were den iitl nital nienioriit. iro 40,000/. Ih JO it was pro d of the saiiu lie, should In tho mini.stoi> confessors and JUS toleration, I Hon. Abbott tho proposal, tho niouiory ol land. y countryiiK'ii, I and Rinccre baud of heroic ho Old World n tho New, of HsiTifio trials, of countless dangers, of dcatli from cold, from starvation, and from a treatih- ©rous foo, funnded a Christian colony, which has now grown into one of tho great nations of tho earUi. It seems .snpcrtiuon.s to speak of this littlo conmnuiity of men and women (and uoblo ^vomen, too), which has now become one of the admirations of the world, and which gathered within its ranks as groat, 1 believe, if not greater, an amoimt of Christian faith, forti- tude, endurance, and iiopo, thiui was over found in a body of im|iki1 numbers on earth. 'J'lio •Rock of riymoulli,' where they iinally made their home, has become our Mecca, to which wo .•mnually, on tlio wintry anniversary of their landing, make a jiilgrimage, to renew onr vows of fidelity to tlie principles of our forefathers, and olVcr up our tliankrul devotions to their and our Ciod for the civil and religious liberty lie lia.s poruiitlcd us to inherit from thcra. Jiong mi',}- that J'ook remain— a momi- mout to teach my conntrymen so to conduct the atlairs of the present, that tho fnture may not be unworthy of the past wo have received."* «^ TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. XII. MOUNT ZION AND TUK VIA TrOI.ORO.SA. TnR crn:uci[ of tiif. aiosti.ks — Tin; miiMX of tiii; BCOKlKil.Vll — FRANCISCAN CdNVICNT — THi; liol'.Si: OF ., CAiAi'iiA.s — iioviM.s OF TUi: i.i:i'i:us— uiK diu'.AT An.Mi:- ■ -IIIAN CONVF.NT — nil-: I'OOI. OF UAIILSIII'IIV — ZIIIV nil- Paui:nt OF .ii:ki;sai.i:m — a .natiuai. roi'.Tai:?.^ — ziu.s- TYPICAL OF Tin: ciirucii — rm: via noi.oii. 'sa — ii uk- I8i{ invention.'! — I'm: aki.u of tiii: i;cci. homo, and OTin:ii Lr.(ii;Ni)AUY sn l.<. The " large npjier room" mentioned inonr last paper — tho " Caniaculum," as it is called — gtands U])on the site and ]irobably is tho same buiUUng iiieiitioncd ly Cyril, IJislio]) of Jeru- salem in tho fourth century, as tlio churi'Ii of the apostles, whore they were said to be as- seniblod on the da}' of I'cntecost. Kpiphaiiiiis speaks of it about tho sanui time under the same name, and ho relates that this building, with a few others in its vicinit}', e.-njamiii 8cntt, f.r.a.s, Dhaiiibcrltiin of Lumloii, I'liblislioil by I.()iij,'iiiiui & Co., I (lid of Uie 8outhwaik Monioriul Fund.. was held to bo tho Cn:'naciiluin, and to contain tho column to which Christ was bound when scourged. Jerome, writing in tho fonrili cen- tury, describes this column as su.staining the portico of a church on IMonnt Zion. Tlie Jeru- salem itinerary (a.o. 'M'.i) also montions the column. Wo cannot look upon a spot distin- guislied by early tradition as the scene of events so momentous, without deep feelings of awe. There are strong probabilities that these early writers handed down a tale that had boon transmitted to them from ajiostolic days. Their testimony takes a belief in the authenticity of this site quite out of the doiiiaiu of credulity. Other legends, less ancient and trtistworthy, soon grouped themselves around this hallowed ] spot. Aiculf (a.i>. 7(10) found that within ! tlie area covered by this building, the Virgin i Mary died and St. Stephen was martyred ; and yet later the monks added other occurrences of i interest to tho long li.st of events connected • with our Saviours earthly career, supposed to ' have taken iilacc here. Tho building .ndjoining the Camacnlum was erected ly Sancia, queen i of Robert of Sicily, as a convent for tho I'ran- i ciscans, and it was their chief scat from A.u. l;il.'5 till l"if.!l. They wcro then expelled by tho Moslems under these circum.stances : a rich and influential Jew from Constanlinople visiting the holy city, begged pomiissioi from the monks to pray at iho tomb of Davit , but jiis reipiest was indignantly refused. ITo threatened vengeance ; and on his return to Constantiiioplo ho rebuked tlio grand vizier for neglecting the tomb of one of Islam's great jirophets, and sutlering it to remain in the liands of tho infidel Nazarcncs. Ifo was not .sparing in bribes to give additional force to his re[uescntationa. lie was successful, and the I'ranciscan brotherhood wa.s driven from tlio convent. They are still permitted on Maundy Thursday to enter tho Camacnlum, and hero on that day they Avash tho feet of ]iilgriuis in commemoration of tho oxampio of humility sot by Christ npon this spot. From the "large upjier room," the church of the ajiostles standing over David's tomb, we went to a singular, tall, ugly block of laiild- iiigs. also without the Avails. This belongs to tho Armenians, Avho obtained possession of it soon after tlie Crusades, and it has no external opening Avhatovor excciit a small postern Avith an iron door. This is tho nputcd palace of Caiaphas, and tho autliority for its being so dignified is of great antiquity, but of very doubtful character. Entering tho Zion gate, "tho gale of tho prophet David," as the Moslems call it, wo passed tho Avrotched hovels of a wrotclied raco 2U TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. 1 t :• Is I' J of people, the lepers, outcasts froTn thoir kind, condeiiiuod to live apart and intermarry only nmoiigst thomsolvea. In chiUUmod and early youth their p:ogeuy slmw no symi)tonis ui tho diseaHc ; but at last -sooner or later, for the walls also lays claim to having been t' (scene of thia molaneholy adventiue. These are tho sites upon Mount Zion in di>tingniKhed by their past a'^oeiationt;. tSdi:. of them aio donbtlesH aiithentio; fiomo Imv tlio age at which it appears is nncortain — it is probability and others have possibility in tin sure l;o break out. At first it attacks a finger, or tho noso, or a foot, and then slowly and steadily the iilaguo-spot spreads and pursues its course inichoekcd as lung as its victim lives. Some of theso miscTabh^ cieatures live to the a.i.';e of forty or fifty, but tlio majority die younger. iNo one knows whether this horribhi complaint is the lepro.sy mentioned in Script luc (jr nut. Tlie most coml'or table residence in Jcru.salem is un.'piesti(;nably tho great Armenian convent, wliich with its buildings and gardens covers .'i largo prnpurtion of that ])art of the summit of Moiuit, Zion wliich is inclosed within tho city wall. It is a noble and vast institution, and can alVord accominodation to three thousand pilgrims. It was foiuuhd in tlio clevenlh century by tho (}eorij;ians, who, finding their revenues unequal to tho expense recpnied for tho establishment, and fir tlio heavy tribute exacted by tho Turks for penni.-^siun to oc(!upy tho edifice, Kold the whole property to tlio Armenians early in the fifieenlli cen- tury, reserving a right of redemj.tiun, ■which has never been exorcised. 'J'hc chinch, built on tlio traditional site of tho martyrdom of St. Jaiiies, is dedicated to that apostle, and in size is second only to that of tho holy Bopulchre. In decoration, vestments, etc., it is by far th.^ richest chui'ch in Jerusalem, but its style of ornament is tawdry and bar- barous. Ono (jf tho rea'^ons of tlio wealth of the Armenian convent hero is said to be that tho Armenians in other lands make three collections during their Sunday ser- vices, ono of whieh is for .J<.'rusalem ; and the whole sect having a warm interest in everything connected with the holy city, they contriiiMto lilierally to tho sn]>;iort of their institutions there. Among their treasures, tliey cLiim to possess tlie chair of St. James; but tho authenticity, n it only of thia reli(!. but of the site upon which tho church is built, is doubtful. It is not jirobable that tho apostle wnuld have been executed within the walls, for this would liavo been contrary to the cu.s- toms I'f tho ancients, and this sjiot must have been wiihin tlie walls at that epoch. Close to tho Jalfa gate is a .small ancient tank, called the jiodI uf IxithsJioba. Tradition assorts that iXivid lived in tho towor of Ilippi- cus, and from its summit law tho ill-fated Urirdi"s fair wifeb;i.thing in th;:. p^iol. Another ancieut pool in tho bottom of the valloy outside favour; and tho remainder, with a long li which wo have omitted to mention, have 1m • tlie suggestions of Irnaves or enthusiasts. . few woi'ds more upon timc-lionoured Zion, ai. then wo will enter tho later-built city. This "stronghold of Zion," the hill f..rt • tho Jebusitos, was tho parent of JeniKaleiu thw original nucleus of tho city (vliioh Tit;i destroyed. I'robably Salem, the njyal city y. Melcliizedek, stood here, and no doubt it \vi the first spot occu]iicd by buildings in the nr of what WMS afterv.-ard.! Jerusalem. It saw u. last struggle between tho Jew and the liom.ii. wlien tho rest of Jerusalem was in riiius, ,ii. the soldiers of Titus filled, the bloodstain. court.y of (iod's desecrated temple. From tli Walls of Zion, Israel's children refused tii cpiarter oiiercd by the Gentile, and perish sword in hand in the splendid palace and lui uiidus gardens of their kings. Tho mount of Zion was remarkably adapiu, by nature for n fenced city. The almost levi l)latfonii on its sumniit gave amjilo space f. habitations, and was bounded on throe side.i ly craggy declivities falling into deep ravim From tho earlie^;t times, the resources of n.' had added to nature's defences, and wo h:i\ Reun how its ancient possessors defied Dav. and David's God. Ho took tho hill forfiv.v. ei.'larged, adoined, and strengthened it, till 1: male it worthy to be Isiael's capital ; and tin in man}' a passage wo read how dear t tho n'anior-king were those mighty rampai: who.'^o protection ho could, from his owi. per.sonal e.\perience, bo keenly appreciate and how onthusiiwtic was his admiration oi its majesty and beauty. "Out of Zion, tho perfection of beauty, Od hath shined." " Great is tho Lord, and greatlv to be piaised in tho city of our God, in tli> mountain of his holiness, beautiful for siiiii tion, the joy of tho whole earth, is Mimnt Zii n, on tho sides of tho north, the city of tlie grei'.t king; God is known in her palaces for a re fugo." " Walk about Zion, and go roimd about her, 14.11 tho tower. s thereof Afaik well In v bulwarks, consider hor palaces, that ye nuiv tell it to tho generition following." " Tliey that trust in the Lord shall be a; Mount Zien. v.'hieh catinot be removed, but abideth f'! ever." As David looked from the surruundii; hilh or ravines to his strong city, begirt wiii. lofty walls and towers on Zion's bruw, hi- heart Bwelled with pride, but at tlie same tinio it gl- for 6U( who 11 and hil mt ^l etrftinj a widq great capititl oorthll im|rbj and tl catthll nc* eti battle olthi fSiitidl Foil zigzn'r the ci of tb Dolor togetl or let The Ponti two o theil atftirc from poTtc Later tlTftl, step side I tiouv tion, lia«l Tho upcrt Bort( buil Hon of tl the liaving been (1 Mount Zi(m ,,„. ''ociiitiony. IS,;], '»fic'; ,';()iiio !i;iv ossibility in ll,. with a long ]. ■nturn, hiu-u li, • '■nfliiisiiusifj. iiouied Ziun, a; iiilt city. " 'lio hill fori, t of .k'njNalom- ■i^y 'Vliich Tit;, liii i(jyal city ,, Ho duiibt it. w;. 'lings iu Iho i„ (-■111. It saw li. iiiitl tlio li(»in„i. ii« ill ruins. ;,i. 10 bloodstain iiple. rr<,in tL icn refu.sed ti, lo, and peii.sli palapo and lu. MOUNT ZION, AND THE VIA DOLOROSA. 215 iukably adaiitt ^'ho almost lev iini]'Io space f n three sides 1 > tleep ravin. resonrcos of ;i: f?, and wo li.r, "s defied Davi 10 hill forfrr.v loned it, till I, V^M ; and tli, . _ liow dear ; i.^i'ity ranipai : t'loiu his oui. 'b' approcialr admiration of of beauty, Co 1 '1, and greatly ir God, iu tlh 'iful f(jr siiiM- H Mount Zi(,ii, V of tlio gieiit lace.s for a re- |» round nbuii! faik well li> i v" "Tli.,.v Mount Zieii. abideth f.i •■^ni'roundiii , begiit will, H blow, hi-, ie fiamo tinio it glowed with thankfulness to tlio Aliuiglil} foT sucli a good gift, and lie gave glory to (_iod who bud guidid and guarded his biave spirit [d his strong hand iu tin 'r sueee;>fnl eour^.c. whilst he poured forth hi;s tiiuniphnnt BtfahlS, tho bream of T'ivinc inspiration gave a wider ineaning to his song, and all that was groat and glorioa-i in his niouutain-eiithroiied cajlitAl was typical of a spiritual eity. Tho oaa^Iily Zion was strong : tho heavenly Zion is irutlrbgnable. Man's A-iolencc wa:i to pro.stratc ana time was to cnuable the bulwarks of tho eatthly Zion ; but neitlior Satan nflh dislodge noi^ eternity decay one stipue of tho walls and lenients of the spiritual /.i,>ii -" the eity the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," hded np(m tho roek ( hiist •Jorh.s. "'or Komo conlniie,'? a narrow street, which zigzags through tho modem .Jerti.salcm from the cliurch of tho holy sejiulchre to tho palace of the governor, has been called the " Via Dolorosa." Into this street tradition has brought together tho scone:-! of all tho events, historical or legendary, connected -"vith the cruciiixion. The legendarj'' sites begin at the palac.' vi' Pontius I'ilato, now the governor'.s p.ilaeo, with two old built-up .arches in the wall which niaik the threshold of the " Scnla L'.mta"— the holy 8tAirca.sc — down which our Saviour descended from tlie judgment hall, and which was trans- potted by Constanthio to the basilica of Rt. John Lateran at Homo, v.lierc, on day 3 of high fes- tiTttl, crowds may bo Rcon weariljr toiling up step by filep on their knees. On the opposite side of tho street is tho churcli of the Flagella- tion, being 'he spot where, according to tradi- tion, our Bivionrwas scourged. This church ha« been recently relmilt ; but two pillars, one on each side, remain in their oiigiual 2)osition. The ancient capitals of others have been idaeed upon ill-assorted fragments of columns, and in sorted in tho Kouare pillar.** of the modern building. Next, " tho Arch of flio Kcce Homo" spans tifo street. ThI.s is the Rubjt '.t of flic engraving in the prosfcnt rtum^fc?-. Fiom the v.-inJnw in the ccntrO of ttth arch, f ilati> is said to hiive exhibited Jesnf< to the mulliindn with the exclamation. "Behold fho Alan I" Tho woman and child ropre< transferrerl io our paper as they leisurely niiproached. Tho veils •,si turns and twists, precisely lollowed tho course of one of the great thoroughfares of the ancient city, after its aliufi.Nt total destructicm, and tho lapse of many cunturies ; and even if sin h an absurdity could be credited, it wotikl but little assist in tho identilieatioii of the sites enumeruted. Still, these hnuses and walls and arches and stones are imjJicitly believed bj pilgiims to mark the actual spots where tho scenes wo have referred to really took place, and a small knot of ,'.>trangers, devout and believing, may often be seen ga/,ing re\erentlyon the spots hallowed by sucli ass(jeiatiotls. Tholigli we lejcct the legendary sites, yet it is impossible to iii'.ad the " Via Dolorosa" without a solemn feeding, for it WitS in Jenisalein that those awfid and touching incidents took placoj and Ave aie in Jerusalem. (hu' two viow.s of this " "\'ia Dolorosa" give a good id(!a of the sti-eet architecture of modern Jerusalem, and no bettor fljiocimens could be found tlutii those which occur at in- tervals throughout its windiiu's. Its name is inentioni'd by iinue of the early writers we have occnpirttltkUy cpioted: the first allusion to it being in Maiinns Sanntns, Avho wioto in tho fnurtoenth ceutniy. Wo may tln'refoie prc- Rume that its n.imo and its "slutionri" aro inventions of ecclesiastics. 216 'TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. TH THE ABCH OP THE ECOE HOMO, and froii points ri tidier, ti and till ripened So that i lands a: the text, and fin JTuteacl stint the for wee supply ; waters J they an and the now, fo days. Or 81 IsIaB, %\ by char its prec ment y should ' of thos( thickly washed may qu dkould you on and ih sostena waters Bitch deed. ittoth of circi Bn, tl hin aven |e re iror. BREAD ON THE WATERS. 217 THE PULPIT IN THE FAMILY. DKGAD ON THE WATIHIS. " Cost thy bro«d \ipmi the waten ; for tlK'\i >liolt find 11 after many days."— Kcda. xi. 1. EllE yon going ut tho right Beafion to Mysore or China, j'cm would seo Ihousands of peoplo planting tho corn of those countries. They sow it in tho rftnd or on tho dry soil, and then immediately they turn on a flood of wator, ro that tho whole field becomes a shallow pond. You would think tho seed was drowned. But wait a few weeks, and ihen go and view ono of these artificial lakes, and from all its surface you will see green points rising, and day by day that grasa shoots taller, till at last tho water is no more seen, and till eventually tho standing pool haa ripened into a field of rich and rustling grain. So that in its literal sense tho farmers of these landB aro every year fulfilling tho maxim of tbe text. For should tho spring como on them, and find their supply of rico corn scanty, instead of devouring it all, they will rather stint themselves. They will rather go hungry for weeks together, and livo on a pinched supply ; for the broad which they cast on tho •waters this spring, creates tho crop on which they aro to subsist next autumn and winter ; and they aro content to cast it on tho waters now, for they are sure to find it after many days. Or suppose that you aro in tho South Sea Islas, where tho bread-fruit grows, and that by chanco or on purpose, you scatter sonio of itiB precious hunches on tho sea. At tho mo- ment you may feel that they arc lost; but should the winds and waters waft thorn to ono of those reef islands with which such seas aro iliiokly studded, tho wandering seeds may get washed ashore, and beneath those brilliant suns may quickly grow to a bread-fruit forest. And should some disaster long j'cars after wreck you on that reef, when these trees are grown and their clusters ri])e, j'ou may owe your BQstenauco to tho bread which you cast on the waters long ago. Such is (rod's husbandry. Do tho right deed. Do it in faith, and in prayer commend it to the care of God. And though tho waves of circumstance may soon waft it beyond your Iten, they only carry it to the place prepared 1^ him. And whether on an earthly or a ivenly shore, the result will bo found, and |e reaper will rojoico that ho once was a iror. Dr. Dwight of America tells how, when tho country near Albany was newly settled, an Indian cnmo to tho inn at Litchfield, and asked for a night's shelter— at tho same timo confessing that from failure in hunting he had nothing to pay. Tho hostess drove him away V ,'h reproachful epithets; and as tho Indian , .iS retiring sorrowfully — there being no f)ther inu for many a weary milo — a man who was sitting by directed tho hostess to supply his wants and promised to pay hor. As soon as liis supper was ended, the Indian thanked his benefactor, and said ho would some day repay him. Hovcral years thereafter the settler was taken a prisoner by a hostile tribe, and carried oir to Canada. However, his life was spared, thdugh ho himself was detained in slaverj'. But uuo day an Indian came to him, and giv- ing him a musket, bade tho white man follow him. The Indian never told where they wero going, nor what was his object ; but day after day the cixptive followed his mysterious guide, till ono afternoon they camo suddenly on a beautiful expanse of cultivated fields, with many houses rising amongst them. " Do jou know that place ?'' asked tho Indian. " Ah, yes— it is Litchfield ; " and whilst tho astonislied exile had not recovered from his first start of amazement, tho Indian exclaimed, " And I am tho starving Indian on Avhom at this very place you took pity. And now that I have paid for my supper, I pray you go homo." And it is to such humanities that tho text has primary reference ; for the context runs, "Give a pnrtion to seven and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall bo upon tho earth." That is, miss no opportunity of ])erforming kind actions. Though you should have bestowed your bounty on seven — -on a nundicr wliioh you might deem suflBcient — ■ should an eighth present himself, do something for him also ; for you know not what evil shall be upon earth. You know not in this world of mutation how soon you may be tho pensioner instead of the almoner. You know not how soon you may be glad of a cnist from those who are at present thankful for your crumbs. Beneficence is tho best insurance. Althougli so often exemplified in cases of common humanity and kiud-heartedness, the maxim of our text is especially applicable to the eiforts of Christian philanthropy. These aro pre-eminentlj' aramanthine. There are seeds which, after being homo on tho cuiTcnt for a few days or weeks, lose their vitality; thoy rot and sink and disappear. So is it with much of human eifort. So is it with many a worldly scheme, many a plausible suggestion, many a patriotic enterprise. It finds little ns BREAD ON TTTE WATERS. v,.!i !ii f : Ul Tlio piiiu'ii)lo adiniif; nf bonnillesH a|i tioii; ami it kIioiiM bo vuiy (■liocrinj^' ii, will) arc ctigngcd in Inlvnirs of Christitin I:. Fur instance, if yoii arc i'iip,ii<^o(l in tcachi, your own cliiltlivn, or thi' oliihhon of oiL pooiile, and your f^roat anxiety ia to HOu loi favour in its day : it cannot got dopoHited in a Bni'ticiont number of ivppropriato minds; and tlius, oro lonp, it booonics old and obsolete ; llie tlioiiglvt poviHliOH, the Rood dissolvos and vanisht's. But not iso willi pious olVort. It is moro than tho lucky thought of lallihlo and Bhort-sij^litcd man; it is moro than the v/cll- ] good thing towards llio Lord— some dawn meaning purpose of a fuehht and sinful worm. ' pious fei'ling, Kome development of per.svi, Jt is a thought Buggef-tcd by (Jod's own Spirit; j earnestness; l)ut, notwithstanding all thu . it is a purpose sust»vined and animated by Ono | dearmeut whieli yon throw into your woi . whose wisdom is inlinifo and who is alivo for j and ail the ]uayer with which you follow evermore. And thnugh tho mind in which tliat wish or olfort, tirst originated may long since have passed from these scenes of nior- tnlily; though, forgetful of its cunning, the hand which lirst iaunehed on the tide of hinnan tJuuight that project or that principle, may long since be crumbling in the clay ; a heavenly life is at its core, and. as it journeys your instructions, you dare hardly say that _v perceive any hopeful sign; be not discoiinij:' It is God's ov.'ii truth, and if all your heini in it, it is living tnifh, and will bloss Jordan's flood, but on the streams of Bab^-ln! Cast it on the Thames and the Ganges. Air'. whilst remembering that " tho field woild," forgot not thiuo own family. ia til "OLD IIOrEFUL." ^ FiKiKKM months ago I was visiting a grocer"- wife in ono of tho most pieturesquo parts ( ' *' Atild I'eekie," when sho said to me : " I wis'; ma'am, you'd just go up tho stair; there'H .1 puir auld body wi' nacbody to care for her, an 1 she's just a fine old cretur ; wo call her '(Hi IIr)peful ;' pitiful as tho is, slio never coiir plains." 1 Went up tho fifroct, and found ono of the--' narrow outside stone staircases, which those wli aro familiar with Old Edinburgh must often hni!,' to explore. This look mo to a small, dark, decayed landing, with a grated unglat^ed win- dow, and after groping about very dubiously, and disturbing a large " collie," who trrowh d at the intru.sion, and followed mo closely to watch my proceeding;, T carno to a dark and nearly perpend ieular wooden stair, which felt wWfcU 1 fltr« fei't The dug be pulk loudly habitant: interrup I jttdgei to blows this roo search, i-agged, of «fceeri fi#b toi 1. 1 ra]! M)iue\ n.s of JJubylo! Cinngcs. An: > liold in \h lily. . 'ing a gronci"- -^squo parts ( ' I nio : " I wls^ !iir ; thorii'H .: i"0 for her, an! call her ' Oli 3 novor com I ono of tho'^'' lifh (ho.so wli ust often Idiit; small, dark. fnglnzod win- ly dubiously. who growled 10 closely to • a dark and 1-, which felt irktibly in.'iecuro, leading to a landing, wkith I fnimd by fueling roiuid it was ulioiit fltrtf feet liy thieo with ii door on each bide. The dog eviiU^ntly Mispccled my inlentioui;, for h» pulled my cloak and ^na^led and giowkd so loudly ns to make himself audible to tho in- habitants of ouo of these rooms, who were thus interrupted in tho middlo of a strife, in wljieh I jvidgcd from tho sounds I hat woids had como to blows. ^Vhilo i was inwardly hoping that this room did not contain tlie objcet of my search, the door was violenfly opi.-iied by a lagged, lipsy-looking man, who, Asilh u volley of «ixeerations, kicked th" faithful dog into the TOOSi, producing a loud yell by tho act, and a frMlli tonnuhj of wrath fiom Iii.s "helpmeet." .1 rapped at ihu other door; and on its being cqpNJiicd, introduced myself, and w is received tnth a cuurte.NV at once reserved and kiudly on ihy mentioning tho name of the friendly grocer. A Binijile glance took tho inventory of tho con- tontti of the roojn. it was a very !,m;ill ganet, at tlie top of one of liu'so wouderlid maoy- Storo\'cd hones, feebly lighled by a tiny witidow which looked out upon tho inaHsivo castlo rock and acro;-iS tho deep ravine of tho reclaimed Nor'loch to tho TUiappro'ichable spkndnuis of the New Town. A pooi-lookiiig bed occu]iied a recess, and a small worm-eaten deal tal)le', a "kififor woodi'U trunk, an old arni chaii' with brass ujiils on the arms, an old high-back chair, a wooden stool, a curiously fashioned scieen, a»- iron pot, a kettle, a tea-pot, two tea-oups!, thteo plates and a cracked hand mirror, consti- tnted the Kole furniture — fit ac'ompaninu'nts to the central object, "Old llopefid " herf;elf, who hwing received mo, Pat down by tho liie in the hliMB nailed nrm-chai!-. She was nged, and tifae and care had graven deej) lines on her face, but had failed to destroy a f-ettlcd express i'lii of oontenlmont. yho weU'o a clean •white oambvic oasp, bound roiHid with a black hiindkcrehief, the token of v.idowhuMd. a smnll biuwn thawl and a blu(^ frieze petticoat, the jiarish gilt. Jt was a day on which the rich were hhivoring in tkeir curt;iincd rooms, and comfortles.s otiough 4k looked eronching by her little tire, vainly 4fyij!g to warm iho stiffening limbs of foui'- iHlbre and tii.\. I did not like to piy into her •Ircumstancef': nlie said she was comfoiiublo and doiitented, and that her datigliler, who was in gei*vice, paid her rent; and this was all 1 learned. fiBio was a^' reserved about her sj)irifind state ; tklit from her peaceful look and iho open liible Ki tho fable, over which f^lii' had thrown a (lii'tl:orchief at myentiaiico, 1 judged that sho jd learned from the inspired l>ago "the godli- \i\9, which hath tho prw is." )' I viMifcd her very often after this, and " as tho snow wreaths ia tluiw," licr ic. eivo meied away, and many talks and prayers we had in tho old garret, where a waiin welcome and a leivenl blessing ever awaited ;ne. llut it was not from hei.sulf that 1 lun.'.-d that ^ho tudy had Ai'.r shlUhigs r face had decjiened, and it wore a Kutl'ering expression, very painful to ace. Thi) room was extiemely wretched, and positively su filthy that a neighbour \\\:^< had been very kind had lieen made ill by spend- ing f.n hour in it. A half-starved cat, whicli had suite red considerably Ireim the attacks of tho collie, was growling on the tloi.r over the tail of a herring ; a tub of clothes which the old woman had l)cen attempting to wash, wa.s by the window ; and a line', from whieh some hali- washcd ragged garmont.swerc hanging. !itrcl< hi-d across tho room. 'J'ho window w.is brok(-n i.nd .stuffed with rag.-*, tlio bed was a heH]i of rags, and a KUiall heap of tho poores' kind of ceial was placed by Old iropoful's chair so as to bo within reach. • 990 OT.D nOPEFUL." U * i Thoro w.'iB no tlifficulty now in poftinKlior confidoncc ; hIio told mo that sho lind been ill nil tlio Mitiniiu'i-, ami had a bad wound in ]wr back; bnt with an indcHtnieliblo hnpcfulnosM, hIii' Nil id sho Nhotild get Ijcttor when the warm woatlur nimo, and that the noighboiiiH, osju;- cially tho IfomaniHt who owned the colliy, were very kind. I thought nho would soon bo better in tho land where tho winter conies not, when tho burden of lier mortality was ihmwn aside. As I went down-stairs, a neighbour told mo of l»er terrible state of want and suffering, and that she would not let her daughter know of it lest she should give up her place in order to nurse her. Tlio rouiu becanio worso and worse, and its occupant more and moro i'ceblo. I ol'len found her iii bed, or huddled up in a blanket by the lire, but sho always said sho was "better" and "very eonifortablo," and indignantly refused to bo moved to tho Union hospital. Tho last time that I saw her in pos- session of her iaeultioH, I asked her if her solo dcpcndoneo was on Jesus (^hrist? It was tho first time that I had ventured to put tho ques- tion directly. Claspiug her shrivelled hands together, while her laded eyo beamed through a gathering mist, sho said with deep feeling, •' Oh yes, 1 believe ho just took away all my sins when ho died. 1 ken hinr well, and oh I'm weaiying to go to him." During that night she had a paralytic sciz- nro, and never recovered consciousness. On my next visit, I found her daughtor, a single woman, about sixty years old, Avho out of small wages had long paid tho rent of her mother's room, and had now left her place to nnrso a parent whom she loved with an uncommon ten- derness. During tho week in which her mother lingered, this faithful creatnro rarely left her side, and at night slept on tho bare boards of tho floor. iShe spent her small savings in procuring comforts for her, declining assistance in this ; and after her mother's death, sold her best clothes to prevent her from being buried in a pauper's coffin. A benevolent Rocioty which had aided her for two weeks, sent three shillings tho night a''tcr her death, and the daughter returned it, thinking it un- just to keep it. It was not till she had done all for tho living and the dead, that sho con- sented to accept tho aid which her penniless state rendered necessary. These few touches describe one of tho noblest characters I over mot. It was but little that could be done, and after a hard struggle, Old Hopeful's Bi)irit passed away. I went up the familiar stair the day after her death, and thinking that the corpse was alone in tho room, I opened tho door gently without.: rapping, and saw what wt)uld liavo mado a ncrfect picture of sorrow. Tlio coi|„ lay on the bod, and tlu^ daughter was knocln on the floor beside if, with one arm ronml and her head resting upon it, sobbing bittn at the loss of her hist earthly friend ; while i) light of the sun, then setting in a flood of ( lii son and gold, streamed through the Mn, window and lliiined like a glory over the luai of the living and tho dead. As I looked \\\h the calm still face, from which death's kindi touch had already effaced the deep lines wh'hi soirow and time had graven there, and on tli. pale shiivilled hands crossed in their endli- re.st, I found it easy to realize that the l;i battle had been won ; that the pilgrim Iw reached the city of habitation ; that the liln rated spirit was already resting where the tv: comes not ; and that another voice was joinin: in that sfiange new song which sweeps m eternal liainKuiies round tho throno of (iod in, of tho Lamb, THE rOET AND THE APOSTLE. At tho time when Cicero was proconsul of C'l- licia, it was the boast of tho province to hiiv numbered the poet Aratus among its nativi< As an evidence of his popularity, silver c( the conleiu- idioino for a idncation at of liis days 8 n, king of he prodnced 'ith the title namo with tiles? They le province, ; and while al reference lAjLratiiH, ill bib noble addresH to tbo AtbeniaiiH, HluUations then in uho nio given, as tlio Ik-am, when he' olmei-ved:— " In him we live, and J >nico, I'epheiis, and < >rion, witli tluir relative m^/ti, and have our being; Jis eei tain also of times of rising and n-tting. Fort.y-five are yttur own [ioets have said. For wu are also liis \ mentioned, nanndy, the twelve zuiliaeal, with oftpring." The sentiment (iut.f<'d with veihal exitetnosH 000Ur8 at the eomiiK ueement of tho poem, of OOUrm; with a heathen application. \\\ •Illy ill llie nortlioru li' inispheie, and thirteen in the stiiitherii. •• Jovo lills till' lieiiviiiH, till! lurlh, tliu sen, llio iiir ; We I'll' 1 liiH s-pirit moving here iiiul ivir) where; Au'l ici. /l/^ <'fx]>ri»r iiiiiii liiw 'luily lueil , Oriliiiiit the hcumoiis by hi.s >*y^nA on liiK'h, Btuiiiii/iK with p '».•< "'' lit;l't •!"' »'■'•'■'• '''niepv. What time with i.liiii{,'h uinl spiide to linak Uw soil, Thiit pl(iiteou.s .sUiriH limy hUfA the iciipi I'.s toil ; What tiliu.' to jilaiit mill piuiir thu vine he sliows, Ami li!in;j;H the piirph' chi-ti r on its hoiijrIiM. To him — the tiist, the !.' I, all hoiniii^e > ielil. Our FiitiiiT woiiihit'ul, oiir help, i.nr shield." The apostle, as apinurs ficui his cpisllos, was conversant with llio literature of the (Jreeks, as well as with the peculiar learning of tho Jews. The idea e.xjiresied above may Ix) found with slight variations in other aneieni writers, as Hesiod, I'indar, Lucretius, and Cleanthes. The latter, in a hynm to Jupiter, has tho pas- Bago:— ••Majr.-tie Jove, all hail ! to thee Mou-r The suppliant [iriiyir, tin- trilmlary son;,' : To thie, from all thy inoital oll-piin^;- due, From tliee we eaim , t'loia thii> our htin^ drew ; Whativer lives and moves, ^;nat siie ! in thine, Emlxidied portions of the -\is<:d and linnri(l : laeli Hrraii;^'d with eare — Deokiiij,' with varicjus foriiiB the eoueave splieie." The path of the yun in the zodiae is described. The Milky NVay is referred to as one ol the great circles in tho heavens. r>ut iiotliing is said of tho moon's orbit ; and while the planets are notieed as hodies having a nmlion of their own, no attempt is made to deiine tlieir periods. " Five other Btarn reliuuii of various si/e, That lawlos si'eiii to wai li r thi'oii;.;li the skies ; lleiiee iilani ts called . \. >till they ever run I'lmiu^h the twelve sii/n-. the eireiiit of the sun. Tiioiii^ands of am's eom lliousands ilepui t — I'je all return and meet ^liere once liny start." That view of the uiiivense afterwards known as the I'toleiiiaie is maintained, which regarded tho earth as an immoxenble centre, around which the wlmle iirni.'iment daily revolved. The hp"aker to the .- liolarly assembly, citing tho ]ioem, hud become i very ditl'ereni man from what ho was when, ah ,*^aul of Tarsus, ho first road it, in his native eity, and looked up to the stars from the banks of the ("ydnus. His native blindness, prejudice, and bigotry, had been dispelled by the glorious li^ht and sanctifying But it may bo safely assumed that allusion is influence of the doetrine of Christ. Ho had specially made to the riicnomena, both as writ- ! been brought to know him aii " (.Jod manifest in ton by a native Cilician, and as then an ex- tremely ]iopular production throughout both the (ireek and lioman world. Iluw iiiucli it was admired appears from the fact tlmt tliiee Latin translations were made of it, parts of which have been preserved. One was !;y Cicero himself when very young; a sceoiid by Caesar (J ermanicus, the giamlson of Augustus; a third by Festus Avienus, in the fourth cen- tury of the Christian era. It is therefore a warrantable conclusion that the ajxjslle had the work of Aratus jiartieularly in view; and his ■ Msquaintaneo with it, quotation from it, with WO enndinent of the sentence in the sacred ▼olume, are circumstances which invest the poem with great interest. A bi ief notice of it may bo given. The poem of Aratus is not an original compo- sition, but a metrical version of an astronomieal ti'eutise, now lost, written by a Greek of the Alexandrian school. It contains upwards of (jleven hundred verses ; and was designed to be jk popular guide-book tt> u knowledge of tho jkeavons, while prognostics of tho weather are Introduced drawn from tho position of the stars. the names and configurations of all the con- ll:! tlie flesh, seen of angels, received up into glory" — seen also by himself, in his glorified luimauity — heard likewi.se rel)ukinga persecut- ing missiuii, and calling hii to the champion- sliii) of his cause ; and it had beeomo the grand aim of his life to make known tho adorable mystery of His incarnatiin, passion, and death, by whom the worlds were made. All his na- turally great endowments we le now consecrated to one object, and all his acquired secular knowledge was carefully husbanded to promote it — that of jiutting down the idolatry of tho nations, illustrating the truth as it is in Jesus, and turning men from the error of their ways. iStill ho looked up with admiration to tho spacious firmament which canopit^s man with material magnifieence. Still ho marked its diversified luminaries — one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of tho stars, one star ditVering from another star in glory ; and this varied splendour is referred to in one of his epistles as an image of tho dis- tinctive diflerenees which will mark tho allot- ments of the righteous in the gieut future, according as gifts and opporttmitics are used with negligence or improved with fidelity. 222 TUK rOET AND Tho (nith locoj^iiiHcd In tlio jxiom was ii'>w TC.HCiU'(\ fniin a ])r()riino n: .•mciiition, and !op;iti- jnat«'ly iiiiproi)viat(Hl. " Fornsiuiuh tlun," lie wont, on til Kuy, ''as wo aro tlu> (.rtViniut;; d' (}«m1, wo o\iy:;ht not to lliiiik (liat lh'> (ioillicad in like init'i jO'l'l. (ir silver, nv i-lnii(>. ^ra on by art ami luaii'.s lUivicr." Thiw waM trisvliii^ ;iM<>U!t (iTiniml, Imt with ruliii iiiti(^i>iilit\ hi) oinliiiitti'd ft perilous position. Ho ml('M, ulalur.s, and ollior nioniuiK'ntH of j)a^i,ii romp, with tiio hlno he;i and tho nioiui^ain biiidsfapo lio •diul. From its podi'stul un the rock of thy Ai'rop.dis, tlio hioii/.o ciil();.Hal ;>taliic of Miuirvn, arnnd wiih Piicar, t,hiold, nnd iK'lmet, lowt'ivd ovor t!io city as its tiitt-lar ji;oddo.s.s and champion; and almoMt within its shadow tlio utatcui it was iiridi*, that noilhov to that, tho work of i'liidias, nor to any ohjuot uf human art, the Duity was liko. Thero was tliu u niplu of idars. with that of tho Ivimonidcs and tho stately rarthonon, bo nif;,h at hand as to bo nluinst within loafh of tho voice which dochircd that "'tlio f.oid of heaven and earth dvvoUe'.h not in tomjilus mado with hands," but Ih " not far from every ono of ns." irowever novel iho.so views to tho polished nssomlily to whom they woro addressed, wo are very familiar wiili tliem, as voritiea of wjiich wo have lieard from tho days of childhood. Nor can it be doubted that familiarity tends to dull tho mind to tho duo senso of their importance, but solitary roflectiim may .'-npply the proper corrective. Thoy ciin never bo tlion<;ht of with too much seriousness am. frequency, (lod near to every ono uf \u is tho y;iai.dcst and most solemn of all truth.;, revealed with the clear- iioK.i of a sunbeam, sublimely illustrated, and earnestly enforced on the page of ins^jiratlon. " oil tell ino, inii^lily luia;!, wlicio mt tlion? SIimU 1 ilivd inti) tlu- (loen? oaj] to tlic f,m\, Or a-k the rcuiinj< ..ni ot tbcir Creiitoi? ShiiU T (juc.itioa I'.uil tlio tiiumlcr, Tt' in t!ir,t the Alnii;^'lity lUvcll^ ; < Ir iidlils t! ' I'lirioiis utorniH iti ftnitrn-d r, in?, And \ikU tierce wliiilwiiuls wheel hiii inpiil ear? Wluit incaa tlmso questiimH? tremblinfr, 1 retract ; Lly proutiate doul miores the present Uixl." lie i,; near at all times and in all places; in diroet coutaet with all oxistenoo, tho v.-wt and liio miuuie. the distant und tho present; and near in all the glorious personality of his nature, so vitally that "in him wo'live and iiiovu and havo onr beins;-."' Wo cannot stdvo tho problem uf omnipresence, or compass in the THE Al'OSTF-R least the transcendent trntli, but it bchovog ni to keep it constantly in miml; and if ^^oveiui Itv its J'ractieal inihioiice, it then liccoiias , douiiine as delightful us it in solemn ami iiiv Ici'iouM. in every wandering, pel il, and soiinu, wo know that a IVituid is \, iiii us aH an ellit ie liclper and faithful guardian ; and we may tinl uii.'peakalile refreslunent in the thought, as . n, I. old did when anlii'ipalin^ human doseiii , " Vo shall bo scattered, every man to his i.v, and .'-hall leave mo aloii(3 ; and yet F am u alone, beeuuao Iho Futhor is with me." KXTRA0T8 FROSI OT.D DIVINKS. Am I IN Tin; Uiciir Way?— Wero lie not a fimli ' li'.iM'lle)' that Would IidIiI (Ml IiIm wny when lio dolli n Ijujv,- Vfhetlier it he ri^'ht or wrnn;,', iiml biiv, I Imiii I rni ri;;ht ; I will liut douht of it ; 1 will ^'o on, iiiid tiii-> tiod i Art not thou ;.;iiilty of tliis fully iu thy truvtla 1j < teruity ? — Ilirhiinl JluxUr. Our. PaAvr.iLi.—fiud leapocteth not tho iiritlimelic .i oar priiyird, liow many tiiey me ; nor tin; riietorie of mi. 1 nyei's, how neut tliey nrc ; iiijr the j^;eonietry of ei;i priivrrs, how lony; tlioy nre; nor Iho imiHic of mi: pmyeis, liow inelodions they arc; nor tho lo^ic of our pii'yerH, liow methodienl tiiey (ire; hut t'.io divinity ii oMi- pvaye-.v, how heart -.spnui;; tlicy uie. Not gifts, lut ;;i uiM, pievuil ill player. — JV«j)p. I'ainti.'.i flto lueiU no fuel ; a dcnJ, formal profcis. i". is easily k( pt up. — M'tnton. C:ii;i:n8 and Confk.ssion.s.— Order in a, help to r.n- liioiy. IFeadM of (loctrip.e are as cells wliereia to besln^v all the thin^d that aro houid from tlio word, llu th.t i.-. V.rll in.stllU.ted ill tho piilleiplrS of religion will iiie.a eauily und firmly it member divino tnitha.— .Vaiitow. TiiK Itmirr Soi'.r ok Uki'Iuiof.— Wo Imvo niiiny ri- proveiH, but th(( niiianer kIiowh too plainly that they i;i' few biiieere. i'rido bitis men r<'provo otlierf, to nuuiil'i -t a lii,u;h estimation of thcm«elvxd; nnd they obey, an^i proudly, ceudoriou.dj", and conlemptaously, they do il. I'a.s; ion bids tlieni reprove, and piwsioimtely they do it. Itut it is tlio.o th;il do it in compii-'iiiua and tciidrr lovi' to men's Koiilg, who do it in ohedieneo to Cliri.-^t, tin; iiiobt tender compiu^-iioaatu lover of souIh, uiid wlii iaiitato him iu their mciuiuio and place, who ciinio to seel; and to utvo that whieh wuj lust. — liirhanl Jiiuki: Cake roa tuk Dodv. — Loam how to curry thysdi' with priiileiiec to thy body. It ij a u.-teful servuiit ii' thou f,'ivo it itj due, and hut its duo ; it is a nioHt di^voui- in;^ tyrant if thou givo it tho mastery, or siitTer it t" havo what it uureusoaably desireth ; und it in ii.s a blunted kuife, an a horse that is hime, us tho ox that i> hvi.iished, if tliuu iujuriuusly deny it what id necussaiy to it.i support. When wo consider how frequently iiuii ott'i'iid in both cxIreineH, and how lew uso their bodit^ alight, wo cannot wonder if they bo much hindered iu their heavenly couveiiing. — liiahard Baxter. S.'JAi.L BicciNNiN'.^. — Tho considerable actions in tho woild havo usimlly very aiuall hojjinuingij. Of a few h'tterd l;ow many thoii.sand words uro nuide, of ten fi ;uro8 how numy lhou:;und iinnibi'rs! A point is th.' beiciiming of nil geometry. A littlo Btoiio Hung into a pond makes a Utile circle, thuii a gruater, till it cu- hugeth iUtlf to both tJio aides. Ho from siunll begin- iiiii;,'s, (Jo.l doth caii.so ail c(flux through tiro vfUolo world. — C/iariwrh. I rotl noi 1Uil| to rei»| I l>Ut it l)0hoV08 IK "l; 1111(1 ifKovoiii, >t JliCIl Ik'CC.IIK.S 1 *< Kt'Ir'iiin mid IIP, '•i'<'iii,iiiuu„ii,;v, 1» IIHUH Jill fnici,.. : and wo uviy li,,,] ■ wli.u Iio,l„(|, ,, |^^ ami buy, I li.iii, I will (,'() (III, iuid till,. lully ill tliy triivilb 1. iiol tlio iiritlimflic ,1 T tin; lliotoni.' of ,11, In; [;ioiii(.(iy of ci;,- flio nniBic (if ,ii;: lor tho loy;ie of our I'ut f!io divinity ,,i Hif. a\ot gifts, l';it li fonnnl profuB ;. ;. • i-'i II llc'lp to i;,,. I* wliirtiii to i)(.'!j|„\v "-■ wi>n|, lio ti,,, religion will Jii,„; Us. — Mautou. liiivo inuny n- liiily tlmt they ui" 'tilers, to inunifc:-! 1 they ob(;j-, uini uusly, tlay d,, i(. "ntcly tliiy do it. und tcndd- love u to O'lrist. tliL. bouIh, iiiid who i^'o, wlio eiiino tu ■Uirhard liiutcr. to carry thyadl' u.Hetul Heiy-imt il' is II most (k'Voiir- ); or sutFer it td und it in us a as tho ox tlmt i:j liut id necussaiy ''nqiientlv nun iiau tlicir lodiiH I'll liiudcrtd in ttur. v;Uo IViblc llotcs anb (Oucric^. ti u actions in t! o "gs. Of a ftw made, of tin ^ lioint Ls II;, ■ oiu) Hung into 'uter, till it eii- 11 Biiiall begin- Cin:ii>f>i.o the reign of .FoHiuh, eoiiiiiriHing i. — xii. : "Z , in tlio fcigii of .Jehoiukiiii, xiii.— XX, ; xxii. ; xxiii. ; xxv. ; Lvi. ; x.x.w. ; xxxvi. ; xlv.- xlviii. ; xlix. 1-3:1 : :! , llie time iif Zed(;lii:ili, xxi. ; xxiv. ; xxvii. — xxxiv.; ixvii.— xx.\lx. ; xlix. :!1 — ;!»; I. -lii. : t', during tho Iniiiii.str.ilion of (Jnliiliuh, and in KKypt, xl.— xliv. CliHji. lii. «(•( nisnmde u|i iVoni the later ('liaiiters of Kings (see xxiv. 18 'J.'i ; xxv. , und re|ieata part ol (;hapfl. xxxix. and xl. From el:ui>. li. ."I, und the luter dale of Home of tho fuetw, the wliele eliai'ti r may he ri garded as tho work of u later writer, and proh.ihly of Kzru, Matt, v, Iti. — "I,it your light so Hhino heforo men that they may Ke<> yo'ir (.jood works, and elypify y.'iir Fatlier whiidi in in heaven." iSIutt. vi. H. " Itiit when thou doe I iilnii, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doelli." In the (Irst ol' these p.TfiSage.j, our Lord gives direeliins that good work-< may he f^een, und in fho .serond, thut certain ollnr.-i niny he quite neeret. Ihit the two pre"( pt.i l^e very easily reeoneiled. The Hrjt is iiildre,''tied to tho true diBcinle.b of Cliri.-:t, and eoiihiins tlie fiiet wl.i^di tl:e pride of tliis world ia imwilling to allow, thut they iiloiio art) po.s.>!esHed of tho trno light or l;nowledge whieli is pcee,s::ary for man. Tiinglit hy t'lt' Spirit and the word of Ood, they are ean.'fid to iiiaintiiin good works, to follow jal't(;r tiie thinr^s wliieh are lovely und of good n port, ii:id 10 exliiliit, without vanity or m ll'm eking, an exumide of good eondnet, whieh all who know tin in may see, ad- mire, iiiid imitate, while honour is given not to them, but to their father in heaven, the power of whose gmeo lias iiiaih^ theiii what they are. Sueh good works ri.iy bo shown not ouly hy those who are entispieii.nH in t!i, :r worldly station, on 1 m.irk.Thle for their gifts and ahilitie.s ; lint c v. 11 hy those whose ontwanl eireiinislaiiees are very unf.ivounihle to h e.uhh^ heliaviour. Yi t it is to slaves or Berviiiil.s in iiartieiilar that the fipo.'tlo 'Pitiis ii. 10; pointed his txhi^rtation to " i.dorn the doetriuu of (hid our S.iviour in all things," The beeoiiil pn.isege is ud- (IroB.sed to, or eonoerns those who performed eertain tleeds good in themselves, in ii wru'.ig or ostentatious m .niier, giviii;;- alms after they had sounded ii trumpet on iireteriee of ealling tlio nei dy to receive them ; or praying, while they were standing in tho BynagogU(;ii of nien. lie who knew man, and what evil is in tho h(;nit, uloiio had a title to ehargo such acts with hyiHicrisy or had motives ; and in tlii:* whole diteour.se, he does it m oho having nuthority. The fir.'-t passage supposes even the uneon- verted world to he eapuhlo of appreeiatiii;' cornet and , holy eondnet : " Hiiving your eoiiversation lionest among tho Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against yon aa evil d'lir^, they may, I y your good works whieh tiny HJiall hehold, K'"rity tiod In Ihu il.iy of visitiitioii I I'et. ii. I'J . The second tells profi.-,ard such iij i( i'l lioiii men, hut that tliey have no ruWiird from thiir I'litlii r who i.-i in heiiveii. I'sA. xxxvii. 14.— "Such ns lio of npriuht coiiv< isji- tioii." I'sn, I, •e{_ ..'p,, iiiij, Il 1,1 ,,|.,i,.,.|,t|, I i„ ,.,,iiv,.rKii. tion iiri'^'hl will 1 show the nalv.itioii of (oid." Kph. i, 'JV, " Only let voiir eonversation liens il lieeoim Ih the ;;'i; pi 1 of Christ.' lOph. iii. 20, "For oiir eoiivei>ulioii is in heiiVviii." 2L''ir. i. 12. "In hiiiiplieily iind gmlly uin- cerlty, not with tleahly wisdom, hnthy the ^l;u■e of (hid, wo have had our eonversation in the woiM." 2 I'et. iii. 2. '• Weeing tin n tlmt all Hum. things nh, II ho di.ssolved, what manner of piTsons ought yo to he in ail holy eonver.-alinii und godliuibS." In all tlieso passu>,'es the vvonl rnureriidluin eeeurs ; hut in not one of them does it signify what wo now i xpn^.i hy it, via., unintereliiinge of aeiitinunts with one or ni iro persons hy nieiins of ;ip( eeli. This iiK^iniii;^' hus U en put iljion the Wind since the Kiiglish translation was emu- pieted. In tli(^ two verses from the IValnis, the word in the original sii?nif!es i'- (7 ; such as are iijiri^ht in tlieir mystery of Christ." l!ev. i. 20. "Tho mystery of tho seven (itara . , . Tho Feven stars aro the angels of the seven churches.'' Tho meaning commonly nthiche mI in ly jjjov.' a wiiniing ti» otlnrw, 1 tliiiik it. n^l ti,niniuii(:iiii (o rclatt- vluit Impinllctl !<> Ji:' inaliy ynvg i.jru, v-\\\lv 1 was y>;t ii yonth, Oiif iIik snuimri' at'tcriuion, iilluiotl liy llio finei.f'Mj cit thu wi'atlkT, ;.ii'i iilJfViil iViiiu tilt! rc-vtniiiii ot' tin' vill;n;'' scln)"!, J, iii imiiiii.iiin willl M'Vfllll (it! "•■<, rvrilliVflf (■' llUVC iJTlc lll.lf iIjivV f.1,1- ildiii IViiiii \\w ii.iu^'inury (slavery uaiiil' \shi?li wi' lay ; 111, ill iilaiii worili^, ^vo liuciinio tniuMtn. A('i'<)r'liii},'ly, utter iiit itinL-; t";T tin r at a Hiiu> uii'l jilii'i; aiipoiutiil, a cimiu'il wiiH l.iM ii.s to tho inui.'iR n/ fl" luliiii,' iiur tiiiii' to the \)('»t mhantaiiii. Soiii" wmiM liavo u.> iio iiiiHin;;; llu' I'uidH to !u ik for ru-sU", wliilc iillur.s iir(rm;il tUat we ciiiilil not ilo hill r than j'nn cfil (n a etTtaiii ])!ai'i' wliicli llii-y aituticuMl, nlicro vc liniiUl l>r mr-' t I lliiil soiiir chiiii'ij t!iiii;.M to ciulil'y v\ir |ialiiti.' ; Imt the umjurity, of whuni [ wa> niu', tli.)ijj;ht that siiH'o wc had had ii iii(."i' ul't'ii ooa all tu ouisi'lvrn, we (iimlit to make tin- iiioif of il, .mul in 'iitUr to ac- I'Mniplirih tlii» olijcct, Mithiti;,' it. Whenever I liappen to j-frdl to the spot, tholl.:;lit!' of h\}',oiu rict iieH ale eoiijiired uji in my mind, and iii\ariiil'ly ind'U'i' uie hi oiler up to lleave'll a iVrveiit ejacidalioli for ii:y i.tira- eiiloiLs eHcape from tile very gales of de,i(!i. Many of my reailers havo visiled at >-in\w part id" tln'ir lives tile lieuutifui nhoreH of the Menai, .-kiit'd on lotii >i(ltn hy stately Woods, with here and Ih' le a, (all uiaii- nioii, lookiiiir frnindly down on the loveiy waier.) iielnv. Ahont the middh of Ihi.-^ Strait, on tin; (.'arner^oiiNiure i^de, theri> isa.-ipol i xtreniely |iietiiii'»ijiu\ and (.eenliiiriy adajiled from its ciheltered position to all". id eonvi nii'Uee for hathiii;^. liamediately liehind, in holh dir; etionn, tliOHhore it< eovt red with wuod>. ritinpr |iiei'ijiitously to a'^real heitrhl, whde liefoie ll.s lii s the hrnad < xpaiise of wuterc, witli not a ripple to disturh its plaeid htirfuce ; and in the distaiiee, the oppoHite tiluire of Anf,desey, in all it« varied heaiity, Innstn ii))oii our view. Tliw is the ^pot \Nhioii forms tlio soeiie of thu incident I am about to iiari'iit<<. lia»iiig arrived cm this fiiot, it wa.s not lonj.; before wo were in the water, (lii>ihing it into founi in the In i',.;hl of DUr glee. Like most boys, I was most anxiout< to eiilti- vah' the art of tiwiiiiming, and on this o(•oa^ion I waw eoiis.iiaw that 1 had made souut progress. Eneouraged by Ihi^ sueeess, and, moreover, wishing to ontotrip my compaiiioiis, 1 hecanio more during. I ventured inU) deeper water, an happy ( venings we used to .■■li nd aioiind tin cniig Preside, whieh never wero nioro to be. Oh, ne\er shall I forget tiio angui!.di whieh piero'tl my verj -'oul in thosi; terrible iiionieiit,'*. It was ihi ij that I could h-n!y estimate the pr- -eptp whieh my I'Oor molln r had early i'ltUill'd into my youthful mind ; liiif. alas, too late! Low.;, le'.'lg, I .-Jtruggled for !if<', but ."ftili no help wa.s at hand. Atla.st 1 reiiiemhered that (ia'( riii;.; h'Kson, " Lo>)k up io (iod in thy danger ;'* and aeipiiring i'resh courage from this thought, I inado I'M" ia.it ( H'ort, and '-tieeeeded. 'I'liO joy whieli 1 tell at my deiiveninee i.s hevond tiie power of my liundde pen to di'piet. My reaitera will naturally eonchide what loHowed. 1 imniedial* ly iifU d up my eyr-s to heaven .IS file )'I;ieo tVom whence lielp hud (Vime, and vowed (l.iat I v,-,,uld, tii'd helping ine, I'Ver afterwards abstain from eomniitlin,^ a like od'eiiee. T.i t those who arc iiccthstomed to despise tho ndvieo ::iveP by their (iireids, take a le!>KO!i frooi this nurfativo ; by i*o doing, they will not havi' (o di plore tiie bitter eon.si'iiueiiees of their liegh e!, wiien death shall bo at their door; and let them alvays be.ir in mind thai "in tlifl midst of life thev ur;.' in death." BIBLE QUES'IIONS. 2D. What ipii I n, sK'ttiafi d by the lovi of wisdom, Jeft In r liouie (i visit a distant lain), and iu what pitiisHgo of ti'.i! New Tesfii:nent is thit. refiTied to V 30, III wliat pu.ssage of the Old TeHtttineut is the church of (,'!iri.»l. pjiokeu of under the tlguriitivo title of "■(lUer;!)?" ;t|. \V!uit ')neen \\n» defirivod by In r son of her regal di,.'nlty for fi Ih.wing idolatrous pracl.icca ? ;t'J. What <(i!een nnntioaed in Scriptovo wnslliome.'itis of Jolivciing her j.nople from greiit jii.rilV AKSWEU TO bCRlPTURE ENKOIA. ■Ki->. V. L\:.\nx TO DO \vi;i.l. — laii. i. 17. T,-abuit . . Edieiie/.er . A-bner . . K-elio).>oata , N-eLeii\i.di . T-crluHu.s . O leb . . , D-iiiah . . Ophel . . XV-idow's mid. Kdeazur . . L-iou . . . L-o«hem . , (Jm. xxi.x. 21, etc, 1 Sam. iv, 1, \t. 2 Sam. iii, 'J7. 2 Chron, xii. 'J,. Neb. ii. 'l—C. Act.-* xxiv. 1, 2, dudgen vii, 25. («"ii. xxxiv. Neb, iii. 'M. T\Inrk xii. 42. Num. XX. tf8, dudgea xiv. 5, 0. JohIu xix. 47. ■■•■ t TfIR SUNDAY AT HOME: % imik Mmm for ^abbjiffi Irabiiia. NOTKS FliOM AN AUCTIC DIASiV. VI, In (in- ('Vi'DJii^ of iho day '^n wliiiii Kii'iifi-nunl I'vni iiiiivL'd, llif iirst. (.k;itli ocuurrnl .niiuv tin- " luvostig:it<)r" left Eiii^laiul. It was tluit of a jj,u I nuc iiuinotl Ko)r. lie hail svUlcu-il sn much tVuiii \V( ukiii'SH ai)il (scurvy, that for tli.> Im^I twci ui'.nllis lu; liuil been lumbk' to inov*; a iiiab. " I visit<.'(l hiiu oftfu," K.'iyH tlio wi.rthy Mura- viivn iiit(ii)ri'»(>v, "diuini? tlio luttcr i)ait uf tin* liiiii', iuul always foiiiid liim full of mduai.s.^ioii to the will uf tiud, and tiu.stiiitj ulouo to the No. 363,— I'l iii.min) Aruii, n, i«iii. DH'iits (if -Icsns ChrtBt, whom )»«> aoki»()M']cilu;fd an liis Savii.iir and i'l'dconcr." J ("aj>lain .M'l'luio di-torininod to ii'tiini with Lic'HUnant l*ym, and cotisuU witli Capiain Ktdhft oil i!u> Nitiiation of tho " Invt^siigator." Writ ill;:; on tin' i'th of April, tho iJiUipn^tcf siiVH : " Thi« nioniint; the captain disparted, loaviiio; (ruiiitnands for fjientejiantrt CrcHhwell and Wyiiiatt, .Mr. Pions, and luo, with twonty four .saihir.s, to follow him ( n the loth. Wo aro to leave all our pn.>." 'i'ln- luoniiii}^ , iif the l.')lli was stiimy, ni'vcithflosN thr mo sixteen of hiH eoni|ioNitinn.s as a l;ecp- ,s(ike ; ami wlu^n I cMme on lUck. my iVii nd and poet Nelwiu Nioiid ihere wilh his ; liipmates, uid sung the following parting Bong of his own composing : — " At ln«t, my IjmK \vi''rr uImhiI to part, Hi'i'ii' lor !irt !i! iiiiTl no iihiii!. iSnt t wtutt« ver cliiiu h y*- mani, Ai' 1 wlienvir y«! amy Itc, OI> tliiiik of lliai tliiil ititH aloft, Pniti'ctia^ yoa uixl uic *' RemfnitiiT yoii tlmt ffiirfal night— Ah ! tiM 11 tiniv tu murk, Wliuii ifv mouiiUiiai* tlirf«t<.'ne«l near 'I'll cni.ili oar littli' liiok '.' We iiail iloae ul) tlmt iiifH could ilu. No otliiT hop*' liiul v»«. Anil wlio lint Kr tlmt »\U uloft ri.itrctcd yuu uii'l iiii' ,' " iH't huv(! the ttiick uixl ilarki'iii!i» oluudd OliM'tiri't} ttie iiiiiii:iiki.tl \\:[\, Ali'l ainrky hitxts rollta And liiil t)i<> ftu-i' ofiliiy. Y« t wp havw bntTrHl tlicw duiigi-n grcut, .Vad niuiiy i^fupc* Imd we; fill' III' tliat dlMiiyH aiU iduft I'lolofli'd you aiul nil'. •' "\V I'M Villi ill |iiiit, diiiij{t'r» Duty oft Iti-mt viinr ('111 i|iii r«d way, Au'l tiiiuMi'n ul'tiiitiiiii'.-" iirico ; Iti nil mlxtf tin.-, Mild Kiy, 'ill |iiit my trust in Mini above, Willi cidiiirt till' trmilili- 1 HI !i ; And t!i,tt lirijiht ryi- tlml'K U|» iiloCt Will Htill wiiti'li ovri nil". Tho jmiiney wn.s very tnilsmno. Six trnii were unahle In aid in dmwinj^ ihe sleil^e JVnm tho lirst, »iid othem were soon disabled. Tho way ovur iho frozen .sea wii« ru^ijiod : nflcn ili -v had 111 ciawl on their hand.-, iiml kiiee.s fur i\ loii^; (Ustrtiii i>. dniji^^inn' ilm sled^oH afier them over irre-iilar lilneks nf iee. 'I'here Were ,M>ve- ral diiVH of aiitiw and f'^; mid. a.s the c'oin])ii>ndrd iipmi, uwin^^ to thi noarnesH nf ihe mMgnetie pi(ie.s, ihey wero often in doubt as to tho direulion thev should t.ik<». But all these difficulties were hapjiily Mir- mniuited. Mild on tho 2nd of May they woro kindly welcomed o»i board tho '• li'csolnte." The "Intrepid" wits fitted up as an hospital ship, and Iwinly two of tho jiarty weie Iruiis- fcrrcd to that vchkoI. With resjiect to tho '• lnvcMii};atn, all lliDse in heiiltfa lioing absent. I went wills Canlain Kellet to meet them. II, WHS II niouinfiil sight, stich as I shall never forget. On each of the four Bledge« lay two sick men, others were led by their iiomewliat stidiigei cnmpaiiinus, otirers held by the sledges. Those drawing I he latfisr were sumo of thorn so w(»k tliat they fell ilnwn powerless almost ever}' five minutis'i, and hae«kMble misery. If tho T.ord had not interpoKpd, niid sent us help .it the ri;.'lit linn.', Imw cmild we ever hive uccniiu Iilishiil niir pinjected jnuriifys to Fort (lood Inpo and I'l.ri beopold ! We must all have perisheil. It was four o'clock befnid tin weary w:indeii'!K reached llic «hips, where they v.cro c.ii'il fnr in the iM'sf manner jmssible. Tho ciptain eniild not bring my journal, as ho had liinmivtid, for altlmugh that alone wmild nol have been m ry heavy, ho mii-^t also Ji.ivc brniight ihe papers and journul.s of all ihu other i.fficerH, which would have been too much. Sorry as 1 was for this, ono glance at the de- hilitated w- m. i: never ay two )me\vliat ledges. th«'ia Kij almost 11 iht'ir kiuioiiH. If tho holp a1 t (!o(j(l 1 llllVli weary \ Wl'lO '. Tho \\i\ li.ul llll IlOl 1 ]iav( le otluM' luiich. I ho do- 01K>Hu,ll on I lain Ixil .(lul which I liiid tiikcu caro to brin^', I mi^lit icjiriulucu my jonriiiil a-' acciiiafoly as iMi.ssililc. This kind iill'or 1 gTiitel'iiU}- iu:c'o|)toil." Tlois l!ii' j nunal, iifi to tho time of arly in good licallh. Ilo •.vas iibsont ono hinidrcd and livo d.i\s, and hud jouruoyi'd ovt-r mnr(' than twclvo hundifd mill's of hitherto untrodden ooust-land. ( >n tlio rotuin. thieo days' joumtiy from flio ship, they were oblig hours, thoy Clime in sight of tho held, consist iny; of seven- teen, of whioh they succeeded in killing thir- teen. On the morning of Soptembor I'Mh no ice was visibio eaKtwurds. 'l"he "Intrepid" steamed twenty liv(i niiles ; and (hen. as no heavy ice wa.s met with, returned and took llio " li'esolute in tow, and with full fail and steam power kept on till it was ipiilo dark, 'llu'n they lay to, noi daring to risk running on a san>ll>a;ik, mentioned by Sir Kdward I'ariy. but intending to continue their oursi- at dayiircak. 'i'o ihcir u;ier ilisnuiV. as soon as it was lij;ht. the .-ea appeared eovere>l with ice in ev('ry diieelion, as fur a« the eye could reach from the nri-lheail. Altemptrt were made at lotist to n-acli i ape Coekliurn, but in vain ; it wits impossible t(» ;;et the voHsels ton feet further, There was only oi;<* hope, that ii slorm uiiglit bn-ak np the lu-w Ic, but it wuK becoming thicker every hour, and un tho Tith tiio eiilry in the Diary is, 'No win 1 and continued (rold. Our h)nging de, iro to rc.ich lOnrope this \c.ii' is fi usliuteii. 'i'lio fellings tlnit ov(!rpowor every oim cun lotle; bo imagined liian descrilMMl.' Tho disappoiniment was indued great, und especially bitter foi' the jioor " Jnvestigalort." I'ivo of them aro mentionid as beiii'j: \crv ill ».'un alicu', and a yoiing oflic-er who had lieoa huiioiing for a long lime, died in Novendter. " lie had been one of my comp:nion.s ever .since Avc h.'ft i'lngiand, and in that time v. c had Icarneil to know and love each other. -Mr. I'ioi".; and 1 vi.-itcd him daily, i.ml latterly watelud many ni^ht'-; with him. We lead friin th" liiMi- and from ''Inisiian books, which ap- ju.'ared tu make a deep impre.-sion upon him. In his litst days, ho was especially deairoua of comfort fi'oiu the woul of ( oid, and sought to grasp tin: promi.'»i-s with the hand of fuiiii as a r'.d and staff to guide him through the daric valley of death. The day ' <-fore Ins cud, Iiy ibsiied the captain and oflii • to be ealh <1, aiul louk leave of ihern singly, begging them to foigivo him if he had evei given them cause of oHence. To-morrow his corpse will be hjw* icd through the ice into tho .sea, with the ut.uul Holemidties." In som<^ rofipoelj^ the " Investigators " fared better this winter 'iLin tho two ))ti'ccding; ihey were satisfied with their rations, fliough reduced to two-thiids ; t)ie,> had li;:ht enough, and the iiitciihange of vi.-its between the l.wo ships furnished (uiteitainment ; but their outer cloihing ^^■aN woin thin, and no b>nger warm en<)Ueeived grew ciMjl in time, and the unavoidable inconve- niences WMre fometimes not submitted to very patiently. ( 'aptain Kt-llct cndeavoincd to i.miiso tho men by engaging them in a theatrical per- foiinaiice, but the cxpeiimont was not very sni.'eessltd, and the otlieers ti ied that of reading ah)ud. Tin? pioposal was received with great applause, and the readings were nunieiously attended. " 'i'hose leadings or 'Time shoit'i:- ings.'a.s they are called, included theoietio-al and piaoli<-al insiiuctioii in astronomy, chemistry, gi'ography, meehanios, etc., and the conversa- tion of the sailors dining their walks on tlie ico ha.-i become <|nile learned." The ships were only five huudt<'d paccH iipart, but btiuiny weather and snow oiieu hindered the exchange of visits. 'J'o meet this dilbeiilty, a communica'iou was eslidilisbcd by electric telcgiaph. ^vhicji fuini.--hed miicli amu.sc- mont. Ibit many weie too ill to share in the.so divt'ision--. ami hefoie the sun relumed. twoked the pardon of their companions on taking leave, if they had in any way otiended them. And I also cannot bo grateful enough to tho Lord who sways the hearts of men, for the respect and att'ection shown to mo b}' captains, ol'ilceis, and crow. I'ofoio Avo quitted the sliij), ( 'aptain Kellct assembled all the nn.'n on deck and i)nblicly thanked the crow of the ' Investigator' for their services, and for their extraordinarily good conduct down to the last hour ; and delivered to our captain a letter to the Admiralty, in M-hich ho gave them snch a testimony as is not often met with." In explanation of this apparently unnecessary leave-taking between men wlio were to meet again so soon, it ought to ho added that (^aptain Kellet was most relm^tant to abandon his ships. After tbey were cauglit in the ice in .September, it carried them sixty-four miles further south- ea.st ; there appeared little doubt but they might reach home in the ensuing summer, and Captain M'Clintoek h.id started innnediately for Wellington Channel, in the hope of induc- ing the commander to revoke his decision. THE BLACK SITir-STEWARD. ' TiiK Rev. T. IT. Davies, lately archdeacon of I Melbourne, at a r.iblo meeting, some ycare j since, told the IVilh'wing narrative of a negro I steward and bis cai)taiii, who threatened "to build a steeple over tho .ship's pantry." The ' incident wa-i mentioned in order to show how inllnenlial the iiumblest believer may some- times bo for good, when acting faithfully to his Christian principles. lie (Mr. Davies) was a passenger, at the time to which he referred, on board a vessel, on his leturn to his native country. lie soon found that neither the captain nor his fellow-passen- gers woulil atl'ord liim assistance in his Chris- tian walk, which the feebleness of his infant steps at that time so much required. The first I few days of the voyage were more tlian irksome, ' and he was often, with sadness, re'.iiii'ded ol j his late neglected privileges of Ciiristian wov- 1 ship and Christian eommmiion. One day, l^ow- cver, ho oveiheard the captaiii speaking in I terms of the highest commendation of his ! black stewanl ; but adding, that ho was so addicted to praying and singing psalms, that he had often tlireatened to build a steeple over his st(!ward's pantry or cabin. After what he had heard, he ,si>eedily made himself known to the steward as one who was inider tho same guidance, and he hojtcd travelling tho same loiid as himself; and many were tho happy hours he spent, many the pnio le jsons of go.spcl wisdom ho received in that little spot, which the captaiii ;iad lightly described as worthy of a steeple. V.ai the benefit he derived from his negro brother did not stop hero, lie c(»nld well remember tho steward, as he waited at t^ihle, castiiig npon him tho pitying and sor- ^•owful eye, when he found him ashamed of hi.'i blaster's cause, and too timid to reprove a pro- fane expression. Ho woidd afterwards seize the first opportmiity afforded him of speaking, and would say, " Ah, massa no get peace dat way. Massa no got peace by being ashamed of .lesus." Ono could not bo displeased with tho riproof, however troublesome so faithful a monil'M might at Rome times appear, his Ic over hat lio own to le same snmo happy j,^o>pcl ^vhich ivlhy of roin his c(>uld \ite(l at uid Kor- (1 of hit! a pro- ds .voizr Hiiking, aco (lut amcd of ,vith tho thfii) a y,\Y, Km TRAVELS IN THE IIULY LAND. 1229 manner bcin^ no very rospeetfiil, ami at the ^rouiul, and prayed that, if it were poHsiblc, tho sanio time his affoetinnato iiiterfst st) appaniit. iioiir iiiiyht pa.^s IVoiu liiin.'' I'ut ho f lund he was not iho only ohjectof tiiis It was night, and the wearied apostles slum- poor fi'llow's Christian laliours on hoard tJiu bered, while the dire Htni^gle that was towoih vessel: his master (the eaptainK the other j cmt their salvuMiin was inaiigiiiated ; and npuii pass(!n}^urs, and every member of (he ship's, the fiail humaiuly of even those favoured three, eompany, hoard from the lips (f I'eter, at one who were specially ehoson to give their blaster time or another, the words of eternal life. His \ companionship in his dread hour of sorrow, eonsistenoy, and open eonfession of the truth, Jesus eouhl not rely for one hour of wakeful eaused his exhortations to ho received without symjiathy. Tiiere, beneaiii the grey olive olfence, and to ho li.-ileiied to with attention, houglis, silvered by the pure rays of the clear All respected pious i'eter. Mr. Davies one moon, he whcj had put on mortality, strove day expressed his surpriso that ho shouhl against mortal tenor at tho appioaching hour chooso su ,h an occupation as his jiresent one, ' of death. There, alone among the olive tree.«, being coniiuiially in (.lose contact with persons ] he prayed, " Father, if thou bo willing, remove around him addicted to blasphtnious and evil ' this cup fiom mo; neveitheless, not my will, conversation, .-ind utterly deprived of the but thine be done." And then "there ap- Ixjuefit of the ordinances nf (Ind's house, ox- ' peared unto him an angel from heaven, eopt while the vessel wius in poll. .\sl;ing him ' strengthening him ; and being in an agony, ho how ho came to be so situated, his answer juayec' moie earnestl}-, an?! his sweat wau a.s v.'as, " 1 don't know, massa, (Jod call mo to it were great drops of blood falling down to dis place." "I wonder \ou remain in it," was ' the uiound." the lesponse ; " sure.y you might scrAo dod with more cond'ort in any other sphere ; what causes yon to continue as a ships steward ?" " Whv, mas.sa, don't ycjii know," said the Hither, through the shadowy tdive groves, eame .ludas with a band of men and otlieers from the chief priist.s and I'liarisees, and with <'ne kiss b<;tra\ed at once his Masti-r's life and steward, "every voyage wo have fresh pa.s- i his own soul. Here, among the grey old trees, sengers, fresh crew; S(j you sec, nia.ssa, every I'eter, the )■ ving, the hasty, the zealous, the voyage we have a new congregation ; 1 preach ' unstalile, smote the high priest's servant with to now people." TRAVELS IN THE HOEY LAND. xiu. uKrnsi;MAM;. •* riii; .vcjO.nv" in qktiiskmani: — ancii.m' inAhinoN in i'avoi;r cr run AL'rin;.sricnv or smc ok iim: i.aiin i KNCLosL'uii — rai-: uauhux a I'uoi iiaiii.k ro.s,si:.s.«inN ; 10 rm; monks— monkish TUAnnioNs — niui;vi;i!i-..sci: uv I'MAiuias — Tui; Aiii;ij oi.iviis is the i-,Arii>i.x — j TUB 01iAl'i;i, AN1> roMIt OK THK VUitJI.N — Aiiscunriv OF IHK MUNKIKH LK(ii:NI) OK lUK AS.SI MIMION — THi; | Vn:iil.N lillllKI) AT l.l'HE.srs — JOACHIM AM' ST. A.NM1-; ALSO HAD OTIIKU lOMlIS — STuNt; ON WHICH niK. \ nuuN i.ivr I'AM. Hi;ii oiKiii.i; to convi.sci; sr. tiiomas. Tui; even was eome, md ( 'hi ist sat down with his twelve ...losen followers, in tht; large upper room near the grave of his foiefiither in llie llesh, to that repast, in perjielual remembrance of which Christian churches of all erccds have instituted a sacramental rile. The eventful meal was ended; "and when they luul sung an hymn, they went out ■.. i the Mount (if Olives," " And they eamo to a pl.ice which was named (u'thsemani. ; and he saith to his disi iples. Sit ye hero, whi' I shall -ray. And he takclh with him ' . , niid .lames, and John, and began to 1 o .ore amazed, and to ho very heavy ; and saith unto them, My s(juI is exceeding .sorrowful unto death tarry ye here and watch. And ho went forwuid a little, and fell on tho tho swdid, and gave the mighty spiritual I'hysiciaii an opportunity of working for the last time on earth a miracle of healing upon a mortal's ailing frame. Ho, who eoiild com- mand the help of legions of angels — He, at whose simple word the great multitude, with their huiteriis and torches and weapons, went back Will (Is and fell to the ground — wanted not the aid of a man's feeble swoid, but of his own will took the cup his Eatlu i gavo him, and drank it to the dregs, that so tho Seriptnro might b(> fulfilled. Here, amidst the shadows of the [lale groves, with calm resolute puriiose. and unallerable determination of heart, he stood forth boldly as the Captain of our salvation, to be made " perfect through snifering." We descended the Via Dolorosa, up which it is reported Christ bore his cross; and probtbly - though there is not a vestigo of evidenc.e in favour of the authenticity of any ono of tho monk-iiiM-nted stations along its coiiihc— the general direction of that weary jonrnej may have been the same us that now f(Jlowi(l by the modern street. We then went foitb by St. Steplu'ii's gate, and dcwn a steep hill into tho deptiis of the \'alley of .(ehoshaphat, croMicd a bridge tiver the almost dry water- course of tho brook Kedion, and canK; to a group of aged olivi^ trees, surrouiuhd by a high white wall. This ondosnro iw at the verv foot of the Mount of ('lives, and here er 2;'.n TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. Iiorciilxnits was lh.it gaiflcn over tlio brook Keilron, whithov .)c-.u.s was wont to go foitli witli liis iliHciples. " Ami Judas also wliicli bol rayed him knew tho place, for .'osiis oft- tiincs r(!sort«d thitlu.r with his difsciples." That ;:;ui(l()n AvaH Golhsoniuuo. Aloro than fifteen centuries ago, tradition pointinl out the ,spaco cuoonipassed by tho wall as tiif real spot whein tlu; dioad scouu of " tiio ai^ouy "' took ])lace ; and, doubtless, tho ancient trees which that wall heil;j;es in, stand witliin iayi'd." I'erhaps on this very spot all tho events recounted oceurrod, or ])ossibly the absulute Bite may have beiMi oni; or two hundred yaids furth(!r along the fool of Olivet. At any rate, wo niay feel confident, if we wander for two or thieo hundred yards through these scattered olives, that i>ni feet ha v. pressed llie sacred soil of ( iethsemane's garden. The tren all those strangers and pilgi ims who would natu- rally visit tlie saeied garden. Though the epaeo within tho wall is only about eighty yaids square, it yields a better rev(!nue than many and many au acre of com land and olive- yard Would render, and all toil of cultivation ; J is saved. To stimulate tho liberality of thii ignorant and blindly eitiduloiis |iilgiiiiis, a number of hidy places are exhibited by the monks within this narrow space. They show a rocky bank where the disciples slept whilst their Lord prayed, and jtoiut out (he im- l)iessions left by their bodies n])on the hard stone. Then they lake tho pilgrim to the "(irotto of the Agony," a cave in which they si(y our Saviour's prayers were olfered up; and then they point out tlie exact spot where Judas stood, when ho betrayed his Master with a kiss. This Latiji speculation has paid so well, that the Greeks have eiudosed a similar space close by, and stand up for their plot of garden ground as the genuine (ietlusemane. 'i he Armenians are about to fdlow their example. Tho Greelcs have not been so ibrtuiiate in tin* trees suirounded by the wall they have lately built, as tlieii- [jatin brethren, for tho trees encompassed by it are wanting iu antiipiity ; and as they do not now exhibit their garden to the strangers of western and sotithern Europe, rnmour says that th(;y want 1(j wait a few years till the tre(.'s grow a little. Thus do those who profess Ghrisl's leligion dishonour his name by their .leeeit and greed of gain, and jirof'anc this most sacred of all the jdaces cnniiecteJ with his mortal career, who.-e situation wo are aide with ceiiainty to identity, tielhsemanc';. garden is not the place for ]iilgrim8 and sight- seers iu (•rowds. niiishalleil by garrulous show- men, but for (piii't musings, s(demn thoughl.-;, and fervent prayers. 'I'he pilgiim.s usually seem especially careless and irreveient, and their jiil- griinage st^ems to be viewed I'hieliy as a jileasant social holidav tiini'. in (lethsemaiK?, ( hi istiau women Ivugh and chatter, and swing on tlio blanches of the olives, us if they were engnged in some mere party ii8ilo bido of Kcdron's brook, which were quite dear of any of Iho city siibuibs. were cut down. Travellers luivo romarkcd ai.M) upon tlin din- pvoportion between llu) huge tnmks of the old olives, and iht-ir 8ni;dl iiewlHaiid scaiil,> lulia};o, which give tlicm the appearanr,. uf lijiviiij.; l.ii ii pollarded. This (.'luuaeleriHtir niav lie olwerved tt) a conKiueiabio e.vteiit in llit; gronp in onr illustration ; but many of the oldest trees, both witbin and M-atteredaionnd ihu eneloMire, have this feature even more ,stron^;ly n;arked. Now the olive \^ a hmg-lived tree, and though we may not think it probable that the now exitst- Ing trees in tlio garden of (ittli.'-einano wtio living when our Saviunr was wuiit uftliuies to resort thitlier with his discijiiiis, vet we will not deny tlic possibility of this having been the case. .\t n\\ events, if Titus did cut down all the trees tiiomselves. the i>resent may h ive boon their suecosBors, and shot up fimu the old stock. The trees, wlien we Haw them, were covered witli flowor-bnds, and gave promise of an abuiidan! crop of olives. In approacliing (.Jethsemano fiom the bridge over the Kodron, we pascd the ( hapcd nf the Virgin, eont«ininr the tirst mention of it is by Arculfus, a I'feueh bishop, in the beginning of the eif^htii century. Ills testimony with rwpeut to it has an additional interest, for it ])idves that tl;o pretty hgoid of the Assumption of the Virgin had not been invented when he wn^e : for he, au well as John liie presbyter, > f I'amaseuH, wlui was afti;i wards canoni/ed, iU!'! wlio wrote a few years afli^r Arculfus, speak . f the Nirgin'H b(Mly. T)ie tradition whieli calls this cave the Virgin's tomb, and the do( trino of the A.-snmptiiin, aie both direetly opposed to a decree of the general council held at Ephesus, A.n. ;)41, in which it was af.serted that thti blessed ^'i^gin and tli(! favoinili* disciple St. J(dni. to wlio.-u care she was cum- uiitteil by her divine Son, were buried in Piphesus, in the very clnnch in wiiieh the council was then assembled. N(jtwitli>tunding this decree of a geneial coinicil, and in spit ■ of the evidence given by a liishop and by a KJiint, the chuiches both of b'ome and the East have for centuries believed tliat the Viigin was laid in this tomb, and tin n that the miracle ol' the .\shmnjition took phuc, and they vcneralo this site accordingly, 'i'hey are singularly unt'nrtun.itc in the ludy plaeos ot this nndergroimd shrine, for bulh .'oaehini and ,SI. Anne have other lonibs lieneath the ancient church of St. Anno. To lliis church, in crusading times, was added a I'enedictiny nunnery, which was liehly enilnwed liy l!,ild- win the First, who forced his Armenian wife to take the veil in ii. The empiess Helena is^ said to have taken tlio bones of St. Anne to Constantinople, but th'.se of Joachim were lei'! undisturbed. Plonks will uphold their propo.sterous in- ventions in the face of all ovi(h,'nce and autho- rity, however concdnsivo ; and in this ea-e oni; of the fraternity defended these false sipnlchres on the ground that there was no reasnn '• ,iy a peiK(jii .should not have two or three tombs m well as two or three houses. The tradiiioiLs respecting the Assumption tell us, that as the Viigiu 3iary mounleil upwaids to the sicy in the preHeiice of the disciples, St. Thomas, iho incredulnus, again evinced unbelief in the palpable miracle which to(dc ])laco before his eyes; and that, to convince him of its reality, tlie ^'irgin, as she a«cend>d, diupped iier giidle at hi.s^feet. The rnck nn which it fell is still supposed to retain a winding indentation, said to bo the impression of the giidle miiaculously made, ami preserved " for the conviction of nil such ius shall suspect tin; trutlx of the story ul' the Asjsumptiging to various Mtcts ; and the unseemly s(iuabbles of modern Christians of ditVerent denominations desecrate the .^acu'ed neighbour- hood of (Jeihsemane — the influence of whose .solemn associations is powerless to check their rivalries and animosities, or to infuse some littlo Christian charity into their hearta. 232 TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. VVIIlTPni THAN SNOW. 23;j •/J ■/J y. •n X a:; THE rULl'lT IN THE FAMILY. \VIH".i;i; THA.V RNVW. ' W.isli vif, aii'l 1 nlmll be whiter lliaii fwiw '—futtm II. 7. ^^^ }^^HAT is wliilcr (Imn 8no\v ? -I NMiite, and very fair, ami beaut ilul as it. is, yet it (.'oiiil-n ^'^ out of a tlciiso lilack rloiul, not iVoni till' (kar blno .-ky. It duos not coiiio from tho wliito, snow- looking clouds that wivutho and float and bask in a winter's sun. It is when the heavens are blaek, and from out of tho murky busoni of the very blackest cloud on which your pyo rests, that tho white snow comes. What could bo blacker than David was a.s he lay in his sins ? His soul was Btnincd with !he most repulsive sins. Yet ho seeks to bo washed, and kncnvs that when washed, lie will bo clean, whiter than the driven snow. Ah, that virgin flake is very white, as it spreads its delicate network on the withered leaf; but there is one thiiif; whiter still. Who are these in white robes, and whence came they? These are they that came out of great tribulation ; out of dark pits (jf sin and death. Some wore thieves, and some were murderers; and some wore adulterers and nnnderers combined, as David was. Manassih is there, wlio filled tho streets of Jeriisalem with innocent blood ; and Mary Map;dalen(\ out of whom Christ cast seven devils; and tliousamls more, once vilo as they: but now there is not a stain on their garments; they have all boon washed in the blood of tho Lamb, and they are all whiter than snow, without sjiot or wrinkle, or any such thing. The man who sees sin best, who sees that it is black and soul-polluting, sees also best how pure and perfect ho may become. David speaks of himself as tho vilest of sinners, yet he says, " I shall bo whiter than snow." Ho knows what God can do : lie knows the power of that jicaci- spcaking blood: it cleanseth us from all sin. 1 aul speaks of himself its tho very chief of sinners; and yet, almost in the same breath, ho speaks of tho glorious gospel of the blessed God as committed to his trust ; of his obtaining mercy, and of tho crown of righteousness that awaited him. Hut God must do it. The wash- ing can be done by no priest. Tho pardon can come through no human eourco. " Against Theo, Theo only, have 1 sinned :" from Thee, 'J'hfco only, can I obtain mercy. This cleansing is within reach of the guiltiest. This door of hope stands wide open to every man, anywhere, on the face of the earth. Murder, adultery, and lies, do not shut it. Tho greater the sin, tho greater tho need of mercy. It is ever the policy (;f tho devil to jnake tho man who is troubled for sin feel that his case is, somehow, an exception. 15ut there are no ex- ceptions; and the men who are disposed to make exceptions of themselves, should be fold that the very fact that they wuuld nuiko otit their sins to bo so great as to const i lute theirs an excejitional case, is tho strongot evidence [loshibje that iheirs is the very ca.se that God accepts. It is sinners, emphatically, that .lesus is come to seek and to save. " 1 came not to call tho righteou.s, but sinners, to reper.tancc." '• The whole need not a jihysician, but they that are sick." These are tho thoughts of tho groat rhysieian of souls. This blood alone can cleanse us. Had there been anything else wilhiii tho reach of miui that coxdd cleanse, David could have got it. There never was a priesthood like that among the people over which he was king. All thai wealth could do, all that power could bring, al! that favoured eiiiumstances with both God and man could cither give him or get for him, he had; but he has to come here to this I'lood which is shed for him, and for you and for me. If anything else could have brought about thi.s end, it would have been substituted by (Jod. It was only "last of tiH " that he sent his Son. It was becau.se no oilier hand could help iind no other eye l)it3', that God inlerpo.sed, and finally sent forth his Sd), taying, " They will reverenco my Son." All other remedies have been tried by (Jod and man, and they have all failed. Come here ; wash, and be clean. This remedy of God's providing i.s amply sufficient. This blood cleanseth us from all sin. Tho very blackest may be made whiter than snow. Each man fancies that his sin is greater than his brother's, when ho is thoroughly awakened to its being sin against (Jod. It may bo .so ; but it is not greater than the power of Christ's blood. Few sins could be greater than tho combined sins of David. Take them all in all; sum Hp tho aggravations: remember his position, and the great things that God had done for him : think of the peculiarly horribli way in which tho luwband of tho ruined wife was foully done to death, ar. .. y>n will probably bo of opinion that greater sins never were com- mitted. Grosser barbarities have been pcipi - trated ; but they have been done by barbarians. Cruelties, refined and cxfpu.^it'^, have distiu- guished thousands in the dread annals of crime ; but thoy have been committed by men whoso hearts were hardened by a cruel trade, or by i\ hard and merciless superstition, misnamed loli- gion. But this man had knoAvn tho grace, and beheld tho glory, of the Lord. Ho had both tasted and scon that God is gi-aciou&. The •J.M HYMNS AM) llY.MN-WlMTKIIfi. Tjord liml instructed him in liis Wiiv. and Imd iiiiuli' liiiii know wiMldiii in tlic liiiMt u iiiiiii cf tlio lu'iiit ; luid yet hi! Kiniicd, iiiid oiniied ilins : jind yet (Idd Yii'dy nardoned him. w^vslicd liliii iVnin iill this i'nnl j^iiilt, (ind irmdc liiiii 'whiter tliiiii Kiiow. Will nut yon, ihi-ii, ci'iiir to thin dud, and tftko Tip tliis nian'M prayer; Kcidc. and find, niciry and <;ra«.! ; and hi) find (deansinLT and rest fur your honl?* 1IV31XS AND lIYMX-WUrrEHS. NO. Vll. Aki'iok Dr. "\Vntt.>«, Iho most f^encrally known, admired, and bidovod anionj!; tlio dissent in;;- ministers, was I'mimi' DohiikM'HI':. lie was horn in liondon in the yi;ir 1702. His t'atlnr died wiien ho was vonMm ; and IMiilip was gi'eatly ind(di1evuoro he was ])astor of n coni;re)j;ation, and langht an academy for dissenting sttnlents. Jn Decemlier, I'i.'^K lie went to Si. Alhan's, to 1)rea(!h tli<' funeral sermon of his old friend and )L':ieiactor, Mr. Clark. In that jonrney, he ( iin'j;ht a cold, whieh did not leave him Ihrongh- ont thtj winter. In the spring of 17.M, it con.*''derahly abated ; }tnt returning agiiin with great violence in the sniiimer, he had to give np preaching, and removed to Ihistid, to try the waters there; hut In^ was evidejilly de- clining rapidly. When his friends reminded him of his fidelity, diligence, and zeal in his ]Master"s service, ho nsid to r(>ply, " I am nothing; all is to he ascrihed to ilie free; grace of (}od." Ho Was advised to try the warm climate of the south of Kurope. and sailed for Lishon in September; but it wiis too late ; for ho arriv(>d iIumo on thv) iJilli of October, and died on the L'lith. Dr. Doddridge was the author of many useful atid pious wnk^i. Among oMiers iriay be men tinned " J hc]{ise and i'rogress of iJeligion in the Son!," a " Fa-nily Kxpositor of the New Testa- ment," and ill' l^ife of his friend Cohmel (iardiner, vvlio, at th.o battle of I'roston Pans, In 17 15. being basely deserted by his regiment of e.ividry, died the death of a Christian soldier ami patriot. But it is with Doddridge as a hyran-writcr * " Tho Penitent's Prnyer : a Practical Exoosition of 1h(i Fifty-first Psfilm." «y tho Kev. T. \lexiUidcr. Nishet iS; Co.. I hat we have to do hero. I lis hymns ai" iinnieioii*,, amounting to ;t7.'). '1 hey were not ndilislied in his lire-time, but aficr his dealli, 'V his fi ieml and biograj)her Job Orton, who IranseiilM-d them from Ins inannseripis, and who gives the I'ollowing account of the desi;;n of their compo.-iiion : — " 'I'licy woie meant lo 1)0 sung after the author had been juoaching on the te.xts pr«!fixed to them; it was iherefoiu his design that they slionld bring ovtsr again the leading thoughts in ihe sermon, and natu- rally express and warudy eid'orce tho-^o devout sentimr-ntN whii h he hoped were iheti rising in the minds of his heaier.s and help t'.i lix them on the momory and heart." 'I'his plan, if will carried out, is an oxc»dh?nt one, for it gives the sid)stanc(! of hnndicds of sermons to be recalled to the menmry by the help of V(^rse, or io bo expressed in resoIutiouH, prayers, or pniiscs, wlien considered and inwardly digested, 'J'hero is a hymn nnivorsally known and admired, beginning: — "Oil, Ooil of IJetliel, by wloao linnil 'I'liy i)e(i|ile still are fed, ■NVlio tlii-ipii;;li tliis wenry j)ili;riiniigo IIuhI nil our fullic'i-8 leil. Our vowH, rmr i)niycr8, we now present U,»fiirtf tliy tlirone of f,'niee ; Goil eucu ; To thee, as to our eovenuiit Ood, We'll our whole 8clven reaigii ; And count that, not our tenth ulone, Hut all wu have is thine. ' The turn of the last two lines reminds us of the noblo epigram made by Doddridgo, when translating liis family motto, " Dum vivimua vivamus" — " While vro live, let us live": — HYMNS AND IIYMN-WIMTKHS. lf;i!!i, " I.ivo wliilo you livi', tin. (jiifiir.i wmilil nny, Ami "iA/.f ifn' |i|i iisiiii 4 of 111,. |>ii„. Ill iiiiv : Live u-liil. yi.u liv, till- Hiiciiil |)|i ii.'l.i !■ I'liiM, Ami ;^ivi' (m ( iiiil ciicli iiK lit u,-, it tlii ., ; Loiro, ill my vitiWN. li 1 JNitli iiiiiliil lio : 1 live ill |)|(u.,uro wlieii 1 livo t ]ii-isoiii rs to ivlcnso, III Satan's lioml.i);!) Iiciil ; Till' gatiH ol' liiiiK-i In loi;" hiiu biii'sf, The iron lottfiM yicl.l. * ♦ i* * >t< Onr ijlml liosaiiiialiH, riinci' of IVai-'i', 'I'liy wi'lcouii' sliiill |iroi-lnim, All! Iiiavi'ir.s I'ti riial arcln i ring Willi tliy Inlovt'tl naiiif.' l^Iost 1)1' till! liyiiins ill tlio nrijiiiiiU vuluuie ns jMildi^licd, liiivr the (exts pivlixcd in cou- iietii'.m wilii which tJu-v wiio lii«t. tVH.-il in tlio BCivico of tho Nuactuiiry ; an in the fuliuwing OXauqdi.'M : — • " 7 irill s'/rtj jirdiWi fit till/ Ciiil ir}iih' I have any It liiii." — I';iallii rxlvi. 2. "(iod of my life, llii-.iiii.di all its days, My ^iiiti'lul |»i\V('i.-i .-iliail ,-ound lliy praiso ; Tlu- moo;; sliall wiiiii' with opening 'i^ilt, And waildi) to the Nili.nt niijht. AVhcli anxious rales Would hn ali lliy rest, And <;rirfs would tear my Ihrohliiny brcliijt, My tuneful piaisen raised on hij^h Sliall check tin.' muniiur and the sigh." " Those that ueek me enrhj gliull Jiud ?;«;."— Prov. viii. 17. " Yii hearts with youthful vi'^our warm, III siiiilin;; crowds draw mar. And turn troin evt ly mortal charm, \ Saviour's voice to hear. He, Tiord of all the worlds on liig ,, ' Stoops to converse with you ; Ami luys His rndiaiit fjUirics by, Yoar I'riuiidship to piirauo." " 2:)5 "Auil (/('. lliy liiH-k, llir lliirl; of my /hiii/inr, urn liwii, itii'l I atu ijuur liiiil, miitli Ihi: Lunl di"/. — l^intkicl X.wir. ill. And will the SI.ijiHty ol'lii'uvcii .Veiept UH for Ills sheep > And Willi II shi pherd s ti mh r care Such worthh sa Cltaluns kftp ? Ami will lie (iiiniul his giinrdian iiiui.i ICound niir dei'i ncehss head ? And ciiii-e lis >;eritly to lie tlvwii III hi.1 retri'HIiili;; nl.ude ? A ft!\v of tlio hyniiiH ail! CDiiiiuidi'd with sj)i'(iiil cvi'jit.s, Mich n.s ]iMl)lic fa.«itN ami par- tieiiluf hcysi.iis. 'I'hf I'lijliiwing wan wiittiii uii occahioii id ii ilriailfiil lire ; — " Kti rnal (tod, oar hiinildc souls lieforc thy presence bow : With all thy iiiit;.'a/llieH of wruth, Il'iw li'inlilc art thou ! Fiinneil by thy hrcalli, whole shceU of llaluu Do liUe a d.' ill;;e pour ; And all our ecinlldeiiee of wealth Lies nioulduivd in an hour. • • ♦ * • • Lord, in the dii-^t we lay us down And mourn thy ri;;hleous ir>' ; Yet bleMrt the hand of ^luirdlaii love, That .snatched us from the the," The pcacuful, piuus tciuuir nf llio worthy iloctdi's lite is cxpiehscd in his liynni on tho iXunial ri:il>liulh . — "I.ord of the sablmth, hear oi;r vows, Oil this thy day. in this tliy house ; And own, as ;;ialelui .sucritice, Tliu SOUL'S which Ironi tliu duHert rise. Thine earthly sabbaths, Lord; we love ; Itnl there ts a liobh I rest abov. ; To that oin laboinin;.; souls a-pir.' AVitli ard( III paii^s of stroni; desire." Tlicso sjicciinciis uio Milliciciit tu ,slii;\v tho merits of iJdiUliiil^o a.s ji hyiini writer. ."^laiiy of his ]iicces have been ailnptcil into olliei- colluctiiiiiM, witljiiiif the iiotieu they ileseive. .I(il> Oitim, who uioli) the lifu of J)(Hlilriilg ■, ami piibli.^heil hi.>< hymns, .scjiiis to have liuil a vt.'iy low I'piiiiiin of the intedlcet ol' ihu.so wl; . Well! to iisi; hi.s iiia.>itci'.-> proiliiet ions in piivali: or publio woisiiip ; for ho gives explanations of Words which in oiir day would occasion no dillienlly even to very yon. it;" di-sciple.-:', tt.s wlion ho has a nolo to tell that rcjililci- mean crciepino; thing-s; e./w'/f.s, banislied persons; elate, lifted lip ; braces, ilefios ; souixe, fountain ; fabric, bnildinj^; mlii'H, faiewell ; und other equally oonsiderato elneidations ! The closing noenea of Doddridge's life woi'o quite in keeping with liis chuiaeter. At Lisbcii. ho and Mrs. Doddiidge, who attended him on the melancholy voyage, were kindly received and eutert^iined in tho house of iMr. iJuviil King, an Knglish merchant. Here he met with J)r. Watth'H Treatise on tho IlappinetiK of Separate Spirits, and told hia wile with tho IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // ^^ A^ip. 1.0 I.I >-liM |50 "^ !: 1^ 12.0 1.8 1.25 1.4 1 1.6 — lilies ^ 6" ► V] <^ n % K y /A uL .(iA.^ >L> Sdenr^ei Corpomlion 73 WEST MAIN STREET Wli^BSTER.N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4S03 * w

ut ho was a man in power, and I rould do nothing. However, as I happened to have a letter in my pocket from the Bishop of liondon, Dr. I'orteus, in wliich, Ly connnission of the Privy Council, he expresses the appro- bation of our missions by (government, more particularly of those in the Vv'est Indies, I )eplied " that his opinion was not that of men nioro qualified to judge of these matters," and showed him the letter. This rather silenced In'm. But when I returned to ^^ hitehall, to report to Mr, King my bad success, I found the Duko still there, and was obliged to leave my busines.s unfinished. I also saw Mr. F enter, which I considered as a bad omen, fear- ing ho might influence the Secretary of State iigainst me. After dining Avith a friend in the neighbourhood, 1 wrote to Mr. King, begged a written order for the passport for Antigua, and stated the case of the Surinam missionaries, adding that I should come on the following morning to receive his commands. I spent a sleepless night in j. reat uneasiness and uncer- tainty, and in freqvont earnest prayer to the Lord that he would help me in this trying situation. The Surinam party was full of faith and confidence, and believed that they should certainly be allowed to proceed, though the}' knew nothing of the detail of the business ; but the Antigua missionaries were greatly dis- heartened, and Brother Hoffinan could not lecover his spirits. In the morning, about ten o'clock, I set out fur "Whitehall, and, passing by the Admiralty, as I was too early for Mr. King, I went and sat half-an-hour with Admiral (afterwards Lord) Gambier, who was at that time a member of the Board. I told him my case, on which he immediately askeci whether he could be of any service to me, as ho was well acquainted with Mr. King. I willingly accepted his offer to accompany mo. IIo decided that he would go in first and speak with Mr. King on the subject, and that I in a while should fol- low. He did so, but soon returned and told me that I need not trouble Mr. King, for he iiad alieady sent a written order to Mr. F , to make out a passport for the Antigua mission- aries, but that, as to those going to Surinam, application must be made to the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, in Downing Street. Thithor, therefore, we went, but did not find tlio Under-Secretary, Mr. Huskisson, at honio. We therefore gave our cards, and rcttirncd to the Adrairalt)-, where Admiral Gambier left me in his room, having to attoiul tlio Board, promising to be at mj' 6ei"\'ico ag liu in an hour's time. I wrote meanwhile to iMr. Huskisson, and stated the case of the Surinam misKionaries to him. But when I had waited a long time for my friend the Admiral's return, whose business at the Board detained him much longer than he expected, as I walked up and down the room, I wa.« tormented in my mind by the consideration that 1 had, in a manner, locked myself up at the Admiralty, and after so earnestly connnitting the case to the Lord in prayer, had now put my trust, in some degree, in the help of man. My faith almost failed me. But I was mistaken. My application to Admi- ral Gambier w as of singidar use to me in ob- taining a most favourable hearing from Mr. Huskisson, to whom he gave me a note to accompany my letter. I now returned to the office in Downing Street without him, and sent in my paper to Mr. Huskisson. Wlien I was admitted, he was reading it, and inimediatelj- addressed me with — " Yes, Mr. La Trobe, your nn'ssionaries shall go. They do good, wher- ever they are, and there is no reason for detain- ing them on suspicion." I requested a written order to Mr. F , and that they might have passports this day, and be leady to proceed on the morrow, as the signal for the fleet's sailing- had already been made. He wrote the order accordingly, which I carried to the Alien-office. Here I also found the order for the Antigua passport, and got both executed ; the clerks kindly permitting the missionaries to come and make their signatures, though beyond the usual hour. Mr. F , meeting me in the passage, expressed his surprise at my success, and added that all should be read}- for mo. You may imagine with what feelings 1 posted home to announce to our dear friends the welcome intelligence, and give them their passports. Tears of joy and thankfulness for the help so richly experienced filled my eyes, as I hastened along. I met them assembled at our treasurer's, where they were to dine. On my entering the room, they eagerly rose to meet me. I put on a cerious face, and asked what they expected to hoar. " We shall cer- tainly go," replied the Surinam party : "1 don't believe it," exclaimed poor disconsolate Hoffman. I then gave them their passports, to their great joy, and after dinner accom- panied them to the Alien-office, where they signed the books. As there was some business to transact at Fortsmouth, our treasurer resolved to accom- pany the Surinam party, and I went with Brother Hoffman and his company, by his particular desire. We travelled by Gosport, and then straight to Portsmouth, whore we 2;58 now CIIOOKED THIKGS WERE MADE STJ^AKjIHT. iwet the day after. Thnugli I was troubled with a violent fit of the headache, 1 went iiainc'diiitely on onr anival at (iosport acronn the water, to inquire for the ship bound for Snrinsiui, but to my bojtow learnt that it had not yet arrived fmra the Downs. But as the sailing of the convoy was put oft' for a few dayu, it did not then give us much uneasiness. In the moniing, \\ollin and I went out to look for a siiitiiblo lodging, and found one in (Iosport churchyard, in which his party found decent and cheap accomraudation ; and the tSuiinam captain, Mr. Jenkins, coming down, took up his abode in tho same house. The saptain of the Antigua ship, whose name was Stranuock, being a friend of \\olliu's, invited hira to accompany the missionaries on board and .spend a few days with him at the ]\Iotheibai\k. After he had finished his visit, he returned, and I i)repaied to fulfil my promise to do the Kame. Meanwhile, a gentleman going passenger with Mr. Jenkins had anived, and also taken lodgings in tho same house, and as he could speak both German and English, I got him to be interpreter betweer the captain and the missionaries, and set out for the Motherbank. Tho weather was remarkably fine, though so late in the season as December 8th and 1 pro- ceeded with a passenger-boat going to Kyde, in tlie Isle of \\ ight, where I intended to hire a boat to carrj- nie on board tho " I'atriot," captain Strannock's ship. But the wind turning against us,- it was not till after sunset that we landed at iiydc. Not a boat was to be had, nor a lodging at any of the inns, which wore all filled with persons belonging to the fleet. 1 walked like a forlorn creature up and down the b. ach, looking for some chance ccniveyance. The moon shone bright, and I hoped, if I could but meet with a boat, to reudi the ship in sivfetj'. At length 1 jier'jcived a wooden-legged sailor, standing at the landing-place, eagerly talking to a woman, and overheard him pro- mising to lake her to Porlsmculh for a certain price. I asked liiui whetlier he would take mo for tho same, for I now saw no better prospect before me, but that of getting back to my own bod. He agreed, and pnimised to fetch me fi-oni a certain inn, into which I went to get Kiiuio lefreshment. As he did not arrive at tho time appointed, 1 returned to the spot wheie I first saw him, and now found him, tho wonian, and a gentleman in earnest con- A'ersation. 'J'ho saiil gentleman having hired tho boat, seemed much displeased with the man for taking additional passengers. How- ever, as he agreed to the wuman's going, I, •with sonio trouble, prevailed ujioii hiin to take 1110 too. We set out, and 1 had no other idea than +hat of returning to Gosport. I i elated my adventure to my companion, who ajtpeared to me very ill-tempered. When we got t'aiily out to sea, the boatman, with his assis(;-,nt. wanted to hoist a new topsail, or a jib lliey had brought with them. While they wlvo doing it, a stiong current from the east set the boat a-driving towards tho ]\Iotherbank. 'i'his circumstance suggested to me the idea that 1 might perhaps yet get on board tho "Patriot." However, the jib lioing set, the men imlled away in the proper course, and my hopes vanished. But, in a short time, down came the jib tumbling into the boat. Mj' companion scolded and raved at their awkwardness ; but they would have another tiial, during which the boat was carried on still fui-ther by the current, even to the easternmost ships on tho banks. I now addressed my countryman, and observed to him that, as we were by g(5od fortune brought so near the ships, he would exceedingly oblige me by sufibriug mo to hail any vessels Ave might pass, without going out of onr course, and if by chance she should prove to be tho " Patriot," he would let his men put me on board. lie protested that he u(n or heard anything so wild ; that as I did not know the marks of the ship, I might as well expect tho 20,O00Z prize in tho lottery, and ho wondered I should make sTich a demand. I granted the impiijbability of the success of my attempt, but persisted in directing the men to hail the sliips we might pass. The first Avas a brig. I asked whether they knew where tho " Patriot " lay, and was answered in the negative. The next Avas a ship. My wooden-legged tai', with a stentorian voice, hailed " Patriot, ahoy," Avhen, to my great gratification, the answer re- turned Avas " ijes." My companion declared that I must 1)0 a wizaid, but I soon found my,*cl£' comfortably seated in the cabin, at a refresh- ing cup of tea. I spent tho next day most pleasantly Avitli the party. Tho folloAN'ing morning early, the Commodore fired a .signal- gun ior tho fleet to got under weigh. Oiio ship after the other set sail, and Captain Strannock put me on shore at Pyde, in the Isle of \\ ight. Ileie 1 Avas as much at a los.s as evei', not a boat being to be had to go to Portsmouth ; and my mind Avas greatly Jiarassed with the thought that, unless Captain Jenkins' ship had ar- rived, the Surinam party Avotdd be Lft behind. About tAventy or more people of A-aiiourj do- scriptious, were met at the inn, and all in tho .same unplea.sant predicament, disappointed v.x their hopes to get across to Portsiuoujli. At la.st the inn-keeper spoke to a man avIio Imd a le.aky hoy l^'ing u))oi! tho mud, Avhieh wa;; buinid to (josjiort for repairs, but Avould not swim. They agioed that if all hands would .-^i'-i now CKOOKED THINGS WERE MADE STRAIGHT. 239 buckle to, sli€ might be kejit afloat hy inces- sant pumping, and those present declared they would vetiturc. I was among theivi, and we got safe, nnniing riglit before the Aviud, and npon tlie mud at Gosport. I suppoKO tliere were not less tlmn 300 or 400 sliips, of various sizen, .sailing at once towards Sf. Helen's, bcUnigiiig to I'onr dillVrcnt convoys, bound to the East Indies, the Medi- terranean, West Indies, Surimmi, and North America. The sight was niiignificent, and the weather incomparably beautiful, liut my mind ■was wi'apt uj) in gloomy apprehensions respect- ing the fate of the Surinam party. J hastened to their lodgings and found them quietly sitting- round the lire, apparently unconscious of the sailing of the fleet. Gaptain Jenkins was at Portsmouth, hurrying on from one place to another to guin intelligence of his vessel. But the missionaries' faitli did not fail them. They kept to their eld saying, " Wo shall nlon.sant to reflect tliat tliin iiniKuluiit aiul iiiterut-tiiig iuslitntic.ii, wliicli foruirily tiijuvtil tin; sir- viccs nt" a Inily pidiis suryjcoii liko Sir. Dmls, liiis liecii r.iulir tlic : uiHiiufuiitlniro of Sir Ivlwiinl P.iiry, iiad Sir Joliu Eiclmiil.sim, clothed me ?" Does every lily breathe into your ear the praises of its MaLvr ? Is all the air fllled with music in his honour, as by the light of his Sim you behold the fair adorning with wliich our Father has beautified the world? It is a pleasant thought tliat in listening to the lessons of these flowers, wo arc simply obeying the Saviour, who told his disciples to " consider the lilies," If the flowers of the field are not too small for God to clothe, they cannot be too small for us to study. It is pride, and not common sense, that would teach us to despise " the lilies." Examine this daiiy, and mark the beauty of its struc- ture. God has fashioned it of two kinds of tiny flowers ; the yellow ones in the middle pre in shape somethinji; like a funnel, with five points at the brim ; the white ones on the outside possess a long wing-like petal, marked with three teeth at the end, and tipped with a lovely crimson. "Consider" it well; reniembor that similar gems arc found in almo.sl every hahihible quarter of our globe, and tell me whether its lesson is not tiiis. " Our Maker is great and good, a God of iiitiiiito wisdom and majesty," I;et us study this group of hedge-side primroses. How cliariniiig tiie'ir colour! iiu', so perfect hi its jiurity ; how delicate the green of calyx, stem, and leaf; how fresh the perfumed air that hovers above their dwelling ! What wonder if the village children love to linger round the spot in which the first primrose blooms, and cherish the pale flower which Ho who created the stars has formed for thevi. Wiiat wonder tiiat '• The schoolboy roams encliantedly alonu. Plucking the fairest with a rude dillght; While the meek sliephord stops Ids simple song, I'o gaze a moment on the pleasing si. It; Oerjoyed to see the flowers that truly hiiiig The welcome news of sweet reluming spring. " You are not tired, you tell mc— and I believe it, for all the children I know are fomi of flowc"s, and love to think about them. Wo will give a few words, then, to the violets. The Creator's care has brought these tiny blos- soms to perfection ; by his arrangement they are sheltered thus beneath a wealtli of foliage ; the slender stalk h slender because He wills it ; the fragile petals curve at his behest ; the perfume is thus sweet bj' his contriving. Tliis rich blue-purple hue is the garment which God bestows upon the violets. They toil not, neither do they spin, yet how sweetly and beautifully arrayed. From this warm bank, modest and humble, they seem to breathe their thanks, as you do, children, when you gruteftilly remember in what ctilm, uhcltered homes He has graciously planted you. It is a pleasant thing to dwell upon tliis care of the Creator for all his works. It makes us tVcl sure that if Ho cares for those flowcr.s, Ikuv mucii more will he care for the children who tmsl in him. You a.-ik mc to tell you more. I cannot now; but in some future walk I may be able to talk to you of otlier flowers: the daffodils, of an exquisite straw colour, which gem the .sloping bank behind the villixgo ; the wood- anemones, white-blossomed and purple-stalked, tliat hide themselves in t!ic valley beyond the copse ; the scented cowslips in the pastures by the river ; for all these also speak of God. Believing, as I do, that Jesus when He bids us " consider the lilies," directs our attention to every flower that grows, I cannot but del>lit to learn with you the lessons of the spring-flowers, aiul to exhort you to love and praise with me our Father who is in heaven. And if the wisdom and goodness of God are worthy of regard in those works of creation, how much more should we study the infinite display of all the Divine attrihutes in the word of his grace. " God, in the gospel of his Son, Makes his eternal counsels known : Tis here his richest mercy shines. And truth is drawn in fairest lines. Here Jesus, In ten thousand ways. His soul-redccmlng power displays: He l>rliigs a better world in view, . And guides us all our journey through." BIBLE QUESTIONS. 33. At what prophet's prayer was rain first withheld and afterwards granted ? 34. Who is compared in the Scripture to " a sweeping rain that leaves no food ?" 85. When did God send rain as a sign of His dis- pleasure against Israel ? ' .*W-V' -rrr-r-'-.K n ■tv, I. >r .' TUE > 'I V ! \ SUNDAY AT HOME % i'mb itlagii^iuc for f abktlj |lealnii§. ' ' k^v. /.r i:o.Ml! AOilK. NOTES FROM AN AKCTIC DIAKY. VII. Thk ehoerfulness with which tho travellers set forth did not desert thorn by the way, which proved smoother thiiu thoy expected, except that in a few places tho ice was thrown up in masses more than fSrty feet high. Nevertheless, tho travelling was very fatiguing, even over the level ice, tho foot at oA'ory step sinking six or eight inches in soft dry snow. Some adven- tures that might have been sorious occasioned more amusement than alarm. '* In Mr. Ommaney's tent one evening, after No. 364.-Pi-'iifrsiiivj! Atrix. 18, isci. ail were in their sleeping sacks, a white boai put his head througli the opening, which they Iiad neglocied to secure properly. Tho officer, the only person who saw it, seized his gnn, which stood in a corner of the tent, and was ubout to tiro on the intruder, when tho gun went off, and the ball striking the tent rope, it immediately fell, covering the inmates, and partly tho bear. Those in the other tents, on hearing the shot and the outcry, came to theii' pssistance, and tho bear was soon despatched. A similar adventure happened to us a few days before. We were lying close together, en- veloped over our heads m otir sleeping sacks, Tbick Oxk I'liNNr. 24'2 NOTES FROM AN AKCTIC DIARY. when wo heard footsteps outHido ; but thinking- it was souio one fVora one of the other tents, wo (lid not distnrb ourHclves. Trcvently we heard a stran^o lond bioatlung, and 'odking out, saw the head of a boar, who was stretciiing his long neek over ns through the opening of iho tent. \Vhat was to be done? Pressed olosely togellior as we were, and in our siuks, wo could not move. At last a sailor siKK'eeded in getting his lai-go knife, and putting liis arni "lit of his saek, cut an opening in the side (if the tent, tluongh whicli we roiled iiastily out. Our guns lay :cady loaded on the sledge, and in a i'tiw Juonieiits the unweleoino visitor lay dead at our H'ot." Xear Capo llotham they met Captain M'Clin- tock, on his return from 'rTellington Channel, bringing only the renewed command of Sir r]. Belcher that the ships should be abandoned. On April the 28tli the party reached the " oS'orth Star." Captain Pullen and his officers wel- comed them kindly, but they could not be received on board until the carpenters had fitted up the lower deck for their accommoda- tion. For some days longer they Avero obliged to sleep in tents on tlie ice. Of this Mr. Jlierts- ching was tired; as soon therefore as his cabin was finished, he borrowed tools and made the requisite furniture hinih>elf. Captain Kellot antl his men arrived a month afterwards. Cntil that time thoy hud been very comforts able on board the " North Star; " but when the cre'.vs of four ships were crowded into one, they could only make the best of it, and hope that it would be but for a few uion " s. They were not yet all togethei, however, for the two sledgo parties sent westward had not retui-ned. Before quitting his shijip, Captain Kcllct sent Mr. Hamilton with a dog-sledge to Dealy Island, to leave instructions for them to come direct to Capo Riley. They all arrived ; afoly in Juno ; Lieutenant Mecham had visited (lio de]iot left on Princess Royal Island, and found that it had been visited also by the ofiicers (.)f the " Enterprise," who had left an account of their pioccedings. The " Enter- prise " reached Behring's Stiait fourteen days after the " Investigator." Being informed by Captain IMoorc that the latter vessel had en- tered the ice, Captain Collinson made luanj- fruitless attempts to follow. Finding this im- Eopsible, he sailed for China, and winteicd at [ongkong. Returning the following year, he was more successful ; but before reaching the 3Iackenzio River, a lieutenant and one of the sailors were murdered by the Esquimaux. Hav- ing learned from the people of Cape Bathitrst tlio direction in which the " Investigator " had saihid the preceding year, he took the same coursG, and found their cairns on Lord Nelson's Head and Piincoss Royal Island, beyond which (he ice Wduld nut allow him to go. Lieu- tenant Crabl)e had visited the " Invtstigatoi-,"' and fotind her just as she was left, the i(;e hav- ing apparently not broken up the summer be- fore. Ho brought several things from the ship with him, but unfortunately not the journals, being unable to find them. The ice began to break at the connnenco- nicnt of August, and in order to get into open water as soon as possible, a canal 900 paces. long and 20 wide was cut thror.gh ice from lu to 25 feet thick. This was accomplished partly by blasting and partly l^y sawing. After tltreo weeks of excessive toil, the canal was com- pleted, and the ship towed through. They hoped by this time to £ id a vessel from Eng- land, sent to fetch the shipless men ; but uono appeared, and they resigned themselves to tlieir fate. "Our old frigate, 'North Star,'" they remarked, " must carry us .%11 home." But tho capabilities of the old frigate were not Act ascertained. Sir Edwai'd Belcher aiTived, an- nouncing that his ships must also bo aban- doned, and room must be found for their crews. There was thus no alternative, and the ''North Star" set sail with 278 men on board; hut before lounding Cape Riley, the cry was heard from tho crow's nest, " Two sails right ahead !" These proved to be the " Phoenix " and tho " Talbot," under Captain Inglefield, the former being a steam-vessel. They were greeted witli unbounded delight. " ^Ve returned with them to our anchoring ground," says our diarist ; "the letter- bags were opened, and now also for me, who hiid not heard from home for so long, letters were produced. That day Avill never be forgotten while I live. How humbled did 1 feel at these proofs of the sympathy and remembrance of the brethren in our German and English congregations! Tho Lord has heard their faitliful prayers. To his name bo praise and thanksgiving for his infinite mercy." Letters had twice before reached the " North Star," but not one fnr Mr. Alicrtsching. He had of course not heard since leaving the Sandwicli Islands, and it cannot be wondered at that ho thought hinjself almost forgotten. The car- penters had built a house on Beechy Island, which was stored with provisions and coals for Sir .John Frnnklin or Captain Collinson. Captain Jnglefield had brought some addition to the stores, and as soon as this was dispo.'^od of, the passengers were equally distributed, the " Investigators " remaining in the " North Star," and the captains going on board the " Phoenix." Then they set sail, but anchored for two days in Navyboard Inlet, to examine a depot of provisions left there in 1850, which was found totally destroyed, eveiy cask and NOTES FKOM AN AIICTIC DIAKY. 1>43 Eijg- <;aKi.! broken open, and tho contents h< rewed on tho <^rc>und. lleie they encountered a fearful storm, in Avhieli llio ""^ North Stiir" lost her hirgest iineliov and 00 fathoms of ehain-eable, tind \va.s only Icept fioui beiuy Btrandcd by the uid of tho " rhujnix." (.'ro.shing BafHn'fci Bay 1o Diyeo Tt-laiid, tlie vc;>el;s anchored in tho harbour of the J. 'anish .suttleiueut of Godhaveil. Mr. Micrtsehinj.'; went on bhoro, and visited sonic of tho Grcen- hiiidcrs, but found a difficulty in understanding them, their language apjji'u.ing to be a mixture of Greenlanditih and JJauish, At last he met with a young woman wliu in her cliildliood had boon several years in Copenhagen, and afterwards in Scotland, and wlio .spoke English fluently. With her help ho ive the peopU' some account of tho men of liieir race iu La- brador and the far ■west, which seemed to in- terest them verj' much. Tliis was Iho last delay ; tho last nKUscl of floatujg ice disap- peared on quitting Disco Island, and the home ward voyago sCemed to tlieso men, fco inurtid to danger, only like a pleas^irc sail. Bui after passing Capo Fare\\ell, tho}' found the heat and tho rolling of tlie sliip, to which they had been so long unaccustomed, very distressing, causing violent head-aches. On the morning of October Gfh, tho "Xoi'th Star" anchored off (iravesend, and Captain Pnllen hired a steamer to tow iiis ship to Woolwich. "As 1 knev,- that the 'Harmony' usually returned from Labrador in Septemlier or October, 1 had been loolcing at every vessel that passed since we left Cajie l''are\vell in the hope of recognising our little Mission brig, but hitherto in vain. Captain Tullen and the officers, who had aided my observatit)na, now gave it up, and maintained l];at 1 fluiild nci bo able to distinguish that ship araong such a number of others. To-da}- fLfrcr dinner X went on deck, and was looking at the sliiyis as usual, when 1 saw a neat brig with two whilTj stripes and seven blind port-holes, and looking tlirougii a telescope, found that it was the 'Harmony.' The captain and offioers were convinced of the fact when they read tho name on the jjrow 'ind saw the white bears and reindeer painted on the stern. ( In the deck stood three ])assen'j;ers, two gentlenieu in sealskins and a lady in Euro- pean clothing. I mounted tho taifiail and waved my hat, which Avas seen and returned by tlie two Brethren. 'J'he steamer towed us eight miles an hour, and the 'Harmony,' sail- ing with a light wind, was soon left, fur behind. in the evening wo came to anchor at (Jravesond. As soon rs it was daylight, and tho tide pcr- iiiitted, the steamer iowcd us up the Thames. That day, favoured by the most glorious wea- ■lier, will :ong dwell in my meraory. The sliores adorned with trees and houses, the meadows in which, not wild musk-oxen .and reindeer, but gentlo domestic cattlo pastiucd, were to us indesci'ibably lovely. There we saw men .hastily walking, here railway irainta lushing along a fertile cultivated land, full ol life and activity; ai>pearing to us, after the desolate regions from which ^vo had come, almost a I'aradise. Since July 4th, ISv>o, we had not seen a tree, or even a bush, it is im- ]iossib]e to describe the feelings of delight that overpoweied every one ; these changing multi- plied impressions seemed almost too much for us, so haig accustomed to desert loneliness ; we forgot to eat and di'ink, but stood on deck astonished at the unwonted life, and ri'joicing like children over evei-vtliinii new and beau- liful. Thus we came, liefore wo thought of it, to Woolwich, in order that 1 might reach London ajs cpiickly as possible, Captain i'ullen took me in his boat, and showed me the way through tho dock-yard to the railway station. As wo passed tlie Admiral's house, we were called back. \\ e must return to the ship, be- cause we ought not to have come in hero, but at Sheerncss. This wan a most unwelcome message, but we wei'o obliged to cdiey. The little war-steamer ' Monkey ' towed un down the river again. The beautiful shores were the same, but I eoiild not agaui rejoice in their beaut^', for my design of being in London that aftei noon was frustrated. " The reason (.if this a]iparentl\- rather unrea- sonable proceeding was learned afterwirds ; the arrival of the ' North Star ' had been tele- gTaphed from liaiiiygate, and an adverlihC'inont from tho Admiralty had announced iu the newspapers that tho vessel would come to Sheerncss. Vi'ives and children had Uji reforc hastened thither to welcome the long-absent beloved ones. I'nhuppily, amidst this glad meeting there were some painful scones. Seve- ral mothers with their children, who came in joyful expectation of seeing once more the long-lost husband and father, received from tho captain tho mournful inteiligeiico that they were not there — that high iu the north they lay in their lonel}* ic}' graves, V'i'ith deep compas- sion 1 saAv these ■weeping widows and oiphans depart from tlie ship." The " Investigators " were transferred to the " Waterloo," there to aw-ait further orders. Mr. Miertsehing wrote to tho Admiral, repre- senting that he did not belong to the ship's compain', and received leave of absence f.ir four days. " In a few minutes I was in a boat an^i landed at the wharf; 1 went into a largo shop in my patched and worn-out Bcaman's garb, and caino out in a short time completely new-clad ; went with Captain PuUen in a steam-boat to E 2 « • ••^.'TrfflPFW''" 244 NOTES FliO^I AN ARCTIC DIAIJY. Stroml, ami tlioiico by niilwny to nondon. At six in tli(> ovcniiij!; I ri'iiclicil the lioiiso oi" br<>